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...tourists-perhaps 6,000,000 -is descending on Italy, eager to be harvested. To the tourist's eye, the cities pulsate with prosperity. Next to the weathered greys, faded beiges and crumbling burnt oranges of past glories stand refurbished or new buildings glinting with fresh paint, new chrome and stucco. Cassino has risen from the bombers' rubble, a gleaming, modern town, with its famed monastery restored. In Eboli, where Christ stopped (in Carlo Levi's novel), six spanking new apartment houses were completed in the past few months...
When jaded appetite and flat wallet demand food that is at once exotic and inexpensive, the answer is Chinatown. From plush oriental trappings, reminiscent of a tong-war movie, to a chrome and linoleum decor, Chinese restaurants provide all setting for your meal. Prices are standard, staggered between $1.50 and two dollars, and the menus vary little between the different places...
...many strategic materials, another downward pressure is the fact that the U S has already bought 78% of its scheduled $7.5 billion of stockpiles. Some metals -cobalt, chrome and nickel-are still critically scarce, and still high. But the supply of copper is now improving to the point where it looks as if the world price of 36?, which is 4? a lb. higher than the U.S. price, is more likely to drop to meet the U.S. price than vice versa...
...black trains crowd after crowd jostles and fights past grimy turnstiles into a world of pale blue walls, glass doors, chrome-plated escalators, and emaciated salesgirls. Plump ladies fill the aisles, new mothers fondle bibs, middle-aged housewives try on the latest fashions illuminated by indirect lighting, and dirty-faced boys in brand new shoes follow Mama from counter to counter...
...Independence, Mo., Harry S. Truman dropped into a local automobile agency to inspect his latest purchase: a $4,000-plus black Chrysler sedan, with chrome-wire wheels, electrically operated windows and seat controls. "It's got so many gadgets on it," said Motorist Truman, "I'll have to go to engineering school so I can handle it." Shortly afterward, the new owner backed the car out of the agency garage, whooshed straight across the street and rammed lightly into a utility pole on the curbing...