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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cole hopes to sell at least 300,000 Corvair '60s, plus 1,500,000 standard Chevies. If he does, he will beat 1955's alltime Chevy sales record of 1,720,000. He also expects the U.S. market to be big enough next year for all comers, big and small, to prosper. "Car sales for 1960," says Cole, "should be at least 6,900,000, including imports...
Economic slowdowns from one cause or another are inevitable, says Economist Paarlberg. They are the price of economic progress. The economy does not grow in a smooth upward curve, but in a series of jumps. It has become so big and dynamic that when one of its major segments slacks off the pace, another segment begins to pick up speed. For these reasons, many economists believe that any future downturns are bound to be milder and briefer than in the past. Furthermore, the economy's built-in stabilizers are becoming steadily more effective. Unemployment funds and pension plans...
...case, if the U.S. economy does start to slide in 1961, there will be a strong source of recovery not present in the last three recessions-the World War II baby boom. By 1962, the war babies will start coming into the market in big numbers for cars, houses, boats, etc., are expected to provide vast new markets in the booming...
...shaggy-dog coats. In Los Angeles the Smart Sixteen set is buying blankets for a sew-it-yourself skirt and blazer set. Most popular are clothes adorned with raccoon. Says Angela Kroll, buyer for Saks Fifth Avenue: "We can sell anything with raccoon." Best & Co. is doing a big business in detachable raccoon collars ($10.95 for a 14-in. Peter Pan collar, $15.95 for a 31 -in. shawl collar), and Chicago teen-agers are buying up sailor hats topped with raccoon pompons...
...Glass Tower (Bavaria-Filmkunst; Ellis) is a big, bareboned West Berlin penthouse, where Lilli Palmer perches like a trapped pigeon, caught in the dual grip of a possessive husband and a plot as paper-thin as strudel crust. Her husband (O. E. Hasse), a vain, autocratic man of means, sees Lilli as a beautiful confirmation of his success. Along comes a handsome German-American playwright (Peter Van Eyck), who reminds Lilli of her former glory as a great actress, persuades her to star in his new drama about a nun who gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your...