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...more moderate course. "Greece has gone through very hard trials recently," he said in his first meeting with the new Cabinet. "It is my fervent wish that the country revert to parliamentary government as soon as possible." When he appeared at midnight Mass in Athens to mark the Orthodox Easter, the crowds applauded...
Policy & Performance. In recent weeks the indicators have been moving unmistakably upward. Housing, the great industrial invalid of 1966, has begun to recuperate (see following story). Retail sales have revived, partly because of an early Easter and strong March department-store sales but mostly because the U.S. consumer has replenished his savings and is spending again. Unemployment, in spite of a dip in the factory work week, has failed to increase, and, in the most reassuring indication of all, Ackley pointed out that "we have been encouraged by the apparent speed of the inventory adjustment, with accumulation actually falling...
...blossoming with the season. Warm weather had brought out the biggest show of shoppers in retail stores since last autumn. Retail business in March, reported the Commerce Department, was $26.47 billion, a 3% increase over February. After adjustments were made for this year's unusually early Easter, March figures were still 4% above retail spending a year...
...Blessed by: Brotherhood of the Love of Christ, Community of Poets, Easter Coast Spring Ball, East Village Other, Innerspace, Jade Companions, League for Spiritual Discovery, Liberty House, New American Church, Peace Eye, Psychedelic Fellowship...
Retail sales in particular have suffered from the shift. They rose in February only 1% from February 1966, and from results totaled so far Easter spending this year barely equaled Easter of 1966. Color-television sales are running ahead of last year but at only about 50% of the increase originally expected. With housing starts off sharply, sales of appliances have been predictably slow. Few segments of the economy have been hit as hard as autos. Auto credit is running 55% below the boom year of 1965, and the industry now expects to sell only 3,730,000 cars during...