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Rockefeller's optimism about the future of America seems undimmed. From the back seat of his limousine last week he admired anew the classic lines of the Supreme Court building, he pondered the herd of joggers around the Tidal Basin ("Must do this on their lunch hour... Must be good for you"). Being rushed to an appointment for which he was already late, he spotted a street vendor below the Capitol. "Gee," said the Vice President, "I wish I could stop...
...Jerry Ford, however, the trip is not so inconsequential. As he proceeds through flag-waving crowds in Bonn and Warsaw, he demonstrates anew that America's first appointed President is a world figure to be reckoned with. It was all the more dismaying, then, that Congress sent him on his way with a stinging defeat, on what had seemed to be a peripheral question. At issue: Should Congress continue embargoing arms shipments to Turkey because the Turks had used American weapons in their 1974 invasion of Cyprus...
Chaotic Sameness. He concedes that it is impossible to tear down all the jerry-built construction and start anew. But he hopes to "give the city back its face and character." The mayor, who still lives in the working-class quarter of Borgo San Paolo, remembers his youth: "My parents used to take me to the Piazza Sabotino for ice cream. They met their friends; I saw my schoolmates. There was a hedge row we called the Vialle dei Sederi ["Bottom Boulevard"] because of the great row of buttocks of people sitting there talking. Nowadays Piazza Sabotino looks like...
...customers. Even in industries dominated by a few big companies (autos, oil, steel, computers, etc.), those firms compete fiercely for market shares. Advertising has failed to sell products as varied as the Edsel and maxiskirts. Strong consumer resistance can occasionally force price reductions, as the recent auto rebates proved anew. "When even the auto companies are cutting prices," cracks Okun, "then you know that capitalism lives...
...structural steel now costs 45% more than it did last year-developers see the old buildings as readymade packages of materials. Even after knocking out walls, putting in new wiring and plumbing, and meeting tough new fire codes, recycling a structure can cost 25% to 35% less than building anew. Says Chicago Developer Ed Noonan: "It's making a lemon into lemonade...