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...moon and started selling lots at $1 an acre. In short order 9,000 eager customers plunked down their money on the outside chance that they might in fact some day ride a rocket to the moon. In its own small way the Great Lunar Sale symbolized the buoyant mood, confident strength, and bright future of the U.S. economy. For 1955 was a year when the U.S. took its first step toward the moon: it went to work to launch the first earth satellite. And to Americans, who finished the greatest business year in history, nothing seemed too hard...
...Ashforth sounded a little more like a barker making a midway spiel than a banker making a year-end report, he had good reason. Any Canadian taking stock of the nation's economy at the close of 1955 was bound to be buoyant. The year had begun with some 500,000 unemployed, and with spreading fears that Canada's postwar boom might be collapsing. Not only did such fears turn out to be unfounded, but 1955 turned out to be the best year Canada ever had. In Ottawa last week, the chief watchman of the country...
Between those two dates occurred one of the most buoyant lives in the history of English letters. When others sulked about the shape of things to come, he chortled, bounced, sniggered and bugled. The family into which he was born was a platoon of all the talents. His kin include Burne-Jones (uncle), the pre-Raphaelite painter, Angela Thirkell (second cousin), the sad librettist of middle-class soap operas, a president of the Royal Academy and a dull cousin named Stan Baldwin who became Prime Minister...
Said Frank Sinatra last week, as he sat cockily in his ebony-furnished, "agency modern" offices in Los Angeles' William Morris Agency and tilted a white-banded black panama off his forehead: "Man, I'm buoyant. I feel about eight feet tall." Said a friend: "He's got it made. He's come all the way back and he's gone still further. He's made the transition from the bobby-sox to the Serutan set and if he keeps on going like he's going, he'll step right in when...
With Vargas dead and Café Filho barred by the constitution from running for President, two new star performers, both of them state governors, have moved" into the center ring of the Brazilian political circus. Both are spellbinding orators and accomplished platform actors, though their styles are notably different. Buoyant Juscelino Kubitschek, 53, veteran governor of Minas Gerais, dresses well and exudes hearty confidence. São Paulo's shrewd Jânio Quadros, 37, once labeled "the most talented actor in the history...