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Thoughtful Newport grocers used to keep stools handy so the local tots could climb up to play the slot machines. Cincinnati high school kids came roistering across the river to take advantage of the whorehouse specials: $1 for the prostitute, $1 for the madam. When one statistics-minded citizen clocked the trade at New port's biggest brothel, he discovered that the eleven girls averaged a new customer every seven minutes from noon Saturday until 6 a.m. the following Monday. The town had its spattering of killings, but they were generally shrugged off as "self-defense." One Easterner...
Travel agents, steamship companies and airlines are reaching way out to bring in the faraway answers. A safari with Baffin Island Eskimos. A climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Shooting expeditions in Nepal. Eat roast monkey with the Yagua Indians of the Amazon, and watch them shoot poisoned darts. Fly over Victoria Falls. A traveler can subscribe to a sort of Island-of-the-Month Club, called Islands in the Sun, that briefs its members on the latest and the best. Bachelor Party Tours, clipper voyages to the Seven Seas, motor caravans from Singapore to Istanbul, Tramp Trips...
...such signs, the optimism of those who look for a six-month recovery is by no means universally shared. "It would be premature," warned the First National City Bank of New York in its monthly letter, "to assume that recession problems are all behind us and that a rapid climb lies ahead." For one thing, the present uncomfortably high rate of unemployment (6.8%) is expected to continue for some time. Particularly disturbing is the behavior of inventories, which are not turning around as quickly as economists had hoped. Inventory cutting in the first quarter continued at the rate of more...
...writing a book. The fact is that a lot of the criticism was justified. It was also fact that with all of its errors of detail, the History was the boldest and most exciting effort yet made by a modern historian to chart man's troubled, inspired climb from primitive morass to a fellowship...
Calling the present time a "very, very tragic hour for our country," he stated that he had asked his Republican colleagues not to "climb on the back of the President...