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Armed with sturdy inner tubes, floppy hats, buoyant coolers full of iced beer cans, and an extra car to leave downstream for the trip back, enthusiasts simply stake out a docile stretch of river, plop themselves into the tube's cool well, and float downstream. When the afternoon is over, the tuber is sun-kissed but cool, refreshed but relaxed, with nary an aching muscle. "Tubing," says one insider, "is not tiring." Without once passing beyond the perimeter of his patched piece of commercial refuse, he has communed with nature far more intimately than the man who has played...
Because of the inevitability of some slack-off in steel-and because a growing number of economists see signs that the nation's 50-month-long expansion has finished its most buoyant ascent-Ackley and his aides are quietly trying to balance the widespread business optimism with some hard-eyed realism. Said Ackley: "We will not be led into the mistake of assuming that continuing gains at the recent rate are assured for the second half of the year." In the months ahead, Ackley feels, the automobile and steel industries cannot be counted on to supply further great gains...
Asked about the present and foreseeable future of the U.S. economy, Chicago Banker Tilford C. Gaines was exultant. "The only words I can use," he said, "are 'excellent,' 'buoyant' and 'ebullient.' " Asked to write a pair of memos to Lyndon Johnson on the state of the economy, Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, had trouble finding any dark spots, replied mostly in superlatives...
...Might not the great Form 1040 income-tax fiasco (see following story) cut into consumer spending? And what if there were to be a strike in the steel industry, where labor-management negotiations last week seemed to be nearing a dead end? No matter. Most Americans would still find "buoyant" and "ebullient" excellent words to describe the state of the economy...
...this enterprise was lavished on the kind of iconoclastic article that readers have come to expect from the Trib's lively Sunday magazine and one of its liveliest writers, Tom Wolfe, 34. Breaking all the rules of clean, lean journalism, Wolfe writes in a buoyant, overstuffed, baroque style filled with grunts and guffaws; participles and expletives that fly in all directions; metaphors that are launched, mixed and sometimes hopelessly scrambled...