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...leadership of the almost 13 million people of South America's third most populous country (after Brazil and Argentina). Preoccupied with the politics of staying in power, he failed to keep a sufficiently attentive eye on the economy. Now the figures add up to a mess (see chart...
...shortage, putting massive pressure on the nation's credit resources in the race to translate higher-than-ever paychecks and profits into higher-than-ever living standards and productive capacity. To fuel the boom, the nation has run $770 billion in debt, a 65% increase since 1946 (see chart). While public debt has dwindled from 65% of the total to 45% in ten years, loans to individuals (including small businesses and farmers) have rocketed from $60 billion to $191 billion...
...political party's national convention is like the adult life of a May fly -brief, spectacular and essential to the preservation of the species," the booklet begins. Describing this peculiarly American phenomenon, the booklet reviews the histories of the two major parties, showing with a graphic flow chart how they evolved over the years. It also tells about convention ground rules, the major issues, how platforms are hammered together, and, in some footnotes to U.S. political history, recalls such all-but-forgotten presidential candidates as New York's Democratic Governor Horatio Seymour, who became known...
...voters in the depressed '305. and the CCF quickly became the strongest third-party movement ever launched in Canada. But in the prosperous postwar years, socialism's appeal faded, and the CCF vote fell off sharply. Six months ago a committee of CCF theorists was appointed to chart a new course. The committee's report, called a "Declaration of Principles," recommended a sharp right turn toward a mixed economy, which would "provide increased opportunities for private as well as public-owned industry...
...feminists found something to focus their anger on last April, when then Prime Minister Mohammed Ali* made his pretty young social secretary his second wife. In response to the outcry, the government assigned an advisory Commission on Marriage and Family Laws (four men and three women) to chart out the dangerous ground between the feminists and the powerful polygamy lobby-Moslem mullahs who seek a theocratic state, and would, according to their critics, confine Pakistan to a 9th-century Arab feudal pattern...