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...number of workers' apartment houses. The national emblem is a flying horse that decorates everything from matchboxes to tractors: the horse is supposed to be charging toward socialism at 300 miles a day. Premier Kim II Sung's* proclaimed ambition is to "reach and pass Japan's per capita production in ten years...
...sober, intelligent administrators are supported by a 40-to-11 parliamentary majority and an economy that provides Asia's second highest per capita income ($400). They are hopeful that by the time their first term is up in 1964, they can win membership in the Malayan Federation-not by revolutionary exertions but by evolutionary responsibility...
...election will probably hinge on two of the state's most populous areas, industrial Hudson County that includes Jersey City and Bayonne, and suburban Bergen County that is one of the nation's highest per capita income sections. Bergen, long a Republican stronghold, went for Eisenhower by 170,000 votes in 1956. Carl Jellinghaus, assistant managing editor of the Bergen Evening Record, predicts that Bergen will deliver a 60,000 margin for Nixon on Tuesday. This is far less than 170,000, but Jellinghaus explains that any comparison with Eisenhower is "not fair...
Since the electorate is dedicated to the status quo and stringent economy, the Democratic candidate, Bernard L. Boutin, promises no radical change. New Hampshire's tax system needs reform badly, for its main sources of money--liquor revenues, a $5 per capita head tax, and a levy on merchandise stocked by storekeepers--are actually regressive with respect to personal income. As one of the five states that have neither a sales nor income tax, it has a constitution that forbids excise duties or any progressive tax, and no candidate for governor since Sherman Adams has suggested reform...
Participants in the plan visited the dentist only slightly more often than the average for the rest of the U.S. The only difference was that once they were in the chair, they allowed the dentist to do more work. Thus their families ran up a per capita bill of $34 (v. a national per capita bill...