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...only child is spoiled not only by his parents but also by both sets of grandparents, who are living longer and are wealthier than ever. In fact, many high-profile women's ready-to-wear brands offer children's wear?Christian Dior was the first, launching Baby Dior in 1967???but they are typically produced under license by outside manufacturers and rely heavily on the brand name and logo. They are very successful in the gift category but offer a limited number of pieces...
Emigration from the U.S. to Israel soared in the years after 1967???28,700 from the Six-Day War to the end of 1971, more than double the number of Americans who went in the entire period between 1948 and 1967. But it is clear that the vast majority of U.S. Jews have no intention of immigrating to Israel, perhaps partly because internal disputes and social conflicts made that state less a Jewish Camelot than it had appeared to be. Jewish thinkers have begun to emphasize an old dialectic in Judaism, the dialectic between the homeland and the Diaspora...
...high school diploma." Indeed, for the Taylors, the McLean experience would soon become what Harvard is for the Saltonstalls?something of a family tradition. Hardly had James graduated when Brother Livingston turned up after withdrawing from a Quaker school in Westtown, Pa. By the time Kate arrived in 1967???on a transfer from the Cambridge School of Weston, Mass.?McLean had even instituted musical therapy. Kate played and sang with an inmate group called Sister Kate's Soul Stew Kitchen, gaining psychological confidence and laying the groundwork for a pop-music career at the same time...
...figures were placed in the ledger books. How much cash was spirited away in this manner, eluding both state and federal taxes, no one can say precisely. After the Government became aware of mob influence and forced the gangsters out of most of the casinos in 1966 and 1967???LCN still has interests in two big casinos?revenue reported for tax purposes jumped by more than $50 million a year...
Much of what ailed Gaullist France was economic. Under De Gaulle, the gross national product has more than doubled, from $49 billion in 1958 to about $108 billion in 1967???at the cost of much stress. De Gaulle hoarded gold, attacked the dollar, and did his best to keep the franc invulnerable. The nation's growth rate, which had climbed above 7% in the early 1960s, last year sank to about 3.5%. Consumer prices have shot up 39% since 1958 v. only 18% for the U.S. For a while, the workers shared in the fruits of Gaullism, and many bought...
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