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...Invisible" Ones. That area is basically one of a relatively few "haves," and millions of "have nots" whose mood ranges from hopeless to revolutionary. Average per capita income is a miserable $400 a year. Since 1961, seven constitutional governments have been toppled by military coups. Nearly all of Latin America-about 8,500,000 sq. mi. and 220 million people-is teeming with unrest. The "invisible" ones, as Colombian Writer Germán Arciniegas said of the masses, may be at a point where they will make themselves heard in "a consuming fire or a flood of light." And despite...
...Walter Heller, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, to tell Johnson that during 1963 the U.S. economy had set impressive records. Among them: the gross national product (the combined total of all U.S. goods and services) rose $30 billion, to over $600 billion; per capita personal income reached $2,500, up $300 in three years; U.S. corporate profits totaled more than $50 billion ($25 billion after taxes), and civilian employment went above 70 million for the first time. Heller also was the bearer of not-so-glad tidings: unemployment last year remained in excess...
Unseen Before. De Gaulle ticked off figures: national revenue up 5%, per capita income up 4% after investments, 325,000 housing units built, 520,000 places provided for new students in schools. It was not all roses, for inflation was rising (see WORLD BUSINESS), and industrial progress was slowing slightly, but there was justification for le grand Charles's rhetorical question: "When did we ever do so much in the past?" He viewed with pride the birth of 900,000 French babies last year and boasted that many of these newborn infants "will one day see a France with...
...nation faces pressing problems. The per capita income is only $56 a year, and the population is still so primitive that in last summer's general election both the Nationalist Party and the opposition Afro-Shirazi Party hired witch doctors to influence the results...
...Indian government cannot afford to assume this, he said, and in a country with a per capita income of only $100 a year, the purchase of expensive war materials "hurts in the real physical sense of deprivation and hunger." This expense could also endanger the success of Indian's economic development program, unless she receives sufficient aid from abroad...