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Toward $600 Billion. The net result is that the gross national product grew by $8.5 billion through March, should climb another $10 billion by the end of June. Since it started at $563.5 billion in January, the present rate of increase would push G.N.P. close to $600 billion by year's end. While few experts are quite that optimistic, most now foresee a year-end figure far above the Kennedy Administration's January estimate of $578 billion...
There are, of course, soft spots-especially in the persistently high rate of unemployment, which has not been below 5% in five years. There were hopeful signs in March, when the rate dropped from February's 6.1% to 5.6%-but last month it began to climb again. Most economists would agree with the Administration that a tax cut might help. But there is great disagreement about the form the tax cut should take...
...Wichita, Kans., laborer could not climb stairs or walk more than a few steps without feeling an exasperating pain in his legs. He did not know it but the arteries leading to his legs were clogged with a fatty cholesterol-like substance-what physicians call an atheroma. But that was the least of his troubles. The deposits were also forming in the neck arteries that feed the brain. If nothing were done, Herman Key was headed for a stroke...
Obeying the occult rules of what's "in," decorous little teen-aged girls from fashionable Manhattan schools must this spring climb, white-sneakered, to the top spiral of the Guggenheim Museum. Low-voiced and appreciative, they stand there taking notes for essays on an enormous painting that has an all-over pattern of gooey brown and a row of real, 3-in. buttons running down the middle. It is called Coat. The girls do not laugh. Coat is pop art. And pop art, much as it may outrage Pop, not to mention Grandpop, is the biggest fad since...
...cars to four cars a day. But retrenchment has left SIAM lithe and ready for fresh expansion. With the philosophy of a patriot who feels that Argentina has only one way to go, Clutterbuck says: "My country is at the bottom of the hill. Now we start to climb the other side...