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...businessmen of Fort Worth-like those in many another U.S. city-watched in dismay as traffic congestion clogged downtown streets and customers fled to the suburbs. At their behest the city hired Architect-Planner Victor Gruen to redesign the downtown area, but Gruen's elaborate plan proved to cost more than the city fathers were prepared to pay. Then a downtown mall was tried, but planners failed to provide enough convenient parking space; in the Texas long hot summer, the few potted trees they installed did little to shade the wide concrete expanse, and business declined. But Marvin...
When the Kennedy Administration first put forth its plan for a corporate tax cut, the proposal was widely hailed as a stimulant that would give businessmen extra money for expansion. Last week, after corporate treasurers had run the proposals through their computers, some businessmen found to their dismay that they would get none of the benefits until 1966 -and would, in fact, be paying more annual taxes until then...
...harried State Department official looked with dismay at a piece of paper on his desk. It was a list of 25 people he was supposed to call to talk about trouble brewing in another part of the world. "My God," he muttered. "What a week!" Agreed a colleague who overheard him: "A nightmare...
Dead Mechanism. Western Europe heard the news with anger and dismay. West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard blamed De Gaulle for a "black day," declaring that "the Common Market is now only a mechanism and no longer a living thing." Alfred Müller-Armack, West Germany's chief negotiator at Brussels, quit his job in disgust. Jean Monnet, the dynamic optimist who is the father of the Common Market, lamented that "there now looms disunion with its inherent dangers.'' Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told his country on TV: "What happened...
Youth's rebellious mood was measured by a Daily Telegraph Gallup poll, which reported recently that 45% of the under-25 generation would leave Britain if they could. To the government's dismay, 3,300 highly trained scientists and engineers migrated to the U.S. between 1957 and 1961; 250 Ph.D.s, whose training cost the nation $28,000 each, go each year...