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...Fast, Too Thin. The war is as ugly and indecisive as ever. The more bullish predictions emanate from Saigon. General Paul Harkins, commander of the U.S. forces in South Viet Nam, says that the war will be over in December; statistics show that the Viet Cong launched an average of 120 attacks weekly last year, and for the first seven months this year the average was down to 74. But statistics are meaningless in South Viet Nam. Despite losses of 1,000 men a month, the Reds have increased their hard-core regular troops from...
...three pistons that propel the economy-consumer spending, businessmen's spending and Government spending-are all pumping once more in unison. Production, profits and purchasing power are running at records. The reports from autos, steel and retail sales are bullish. On Wall Street the stock market has come back to within 15 points of its all-time 1961 high of 734.91. The business pickup has been greeted by every name, from the grudging "seasonal upswing" to the barely restrained "boomlet" now used in an advertisement by staid Standard & Poor's. The economy's performance...
...visiting poetry professor at Oxford and (for 40 years) a tireless reformist inspector of the British school system. Critic Arnold had many a platform from which to praise past excellence and take potshots at John Bullish complacency. He had a gift for making a phrase stick. After Arnold so summed him up, Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley has indelibly remained "an ineffectual angel." His fellow Britons Arnold divided into three groups: "the Barbarians [aristocracy], the Populace and the Philistines," an epithet which for Arnold summed up all the sins of the muscular, muddleheaded, self-satisfied British middle class. He takes...
Even the Kennedy Administration was beginning to feel a bit bullish, and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon expressed the official optimism. Said he in a Washington speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "Our prospects for the year are relatively better than most observers had expected. If the improvement continues, our estimated revenues may well be more than we estimated in January-perhaps by as much as a billion dollars...
Still, the Kennedy Administration avows hopefulness. Says Larry O'Brien, the White House's top liaison man to Capitol Hill: "The Congress will get moving. We are going to have a good record." At the present rate of action, that may turn out to be the most bullish statement of the year...