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After growing less than 3% annually in the early 1960s, East Germany's production this year will climb 5%, to $21 billion, at official if somewhat inflated rates of exchange. Though that is only one-fifth of West Germany's output, East Germany has become the top producer for the Soviet orbit outside of Russia itself. It has the highest living standard of any Communist country and-at least by its own statistics-ranks as the world's tenth biggest industrial power, eighth in production of TV sets, seventh in chemicals, fifth in exports of office machines...
...rise was almost a caricature of the starlet's climb to the top: birth in Brooklyn, a psychotic mother (who once threatened to kill Clara if she became an actress), first prize in a beauty contest at 16, a bit part that wound up on the cutting-room floor, a sympathetic producer (B. P. Schulberg), a role in a Big Movie, recognition...
...clear to his doctors that four years after the stabbing, Gormley had a heart problem. They sent him to National Jewish Hospital in Denver, where "None may enter who can pay, none can pay who enter " By the time he got to Denver a month ago, Gormley could not climb a flight of stairs without distress, and he complained that his legs kept "going to sleep." His blood pressure had soared to 240/140. Doctors could feel no pulse in his legs. Chief Surgeon Melvin Newman and his assistants at N.J.H. figured that their patient was suffering from a partial obstruction...
...last the men's clothing industry seems to be acquiring a sharper look. It expects sales (excluding shoes) to climb from $10.2 billion to $11.7 billion this year. Buyers ordered 15% more than the year before when they looked at new spring suits last month; they are expected to top that gain when they return to Manhattan in two weeks for a show of 1966 sportswear. Last week the industry's leader, Hart Schaffner & Marx, reported that its orders are up 20%, predicted that its 1965 sales will rise 14% to a record $165 million...
...economy has enabled millions to climb up from poverty, and plenty of people defined as poor by the Government do not think of themselves that way. Says a Houston cleaning woman: "I've got three kids at home, and I raised them on less than $2,000 a year, and I'm proud of it. You ain't poor until your spirit goes, and I think it goes if you keep on taking handouts." One impoverished ex-miner in Pennsylvania has a freezer loaded with vegetables from his backyard garden-and a shotgun in the kitchen...