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Chevy Division Manager Elliott ("Pete") Estes has fallen behind his competitor (and Bloomfield Hills neigh bor) Don Frey, whose Ford Division in October outsold Chevrolet 194,000 cars to 192,000. None of the regular "lower-priced three" cars are burning up the track, but racier, higher-priced models are doing splendidly, and auto economists point out that "the sales mix is very rich...
Kennedy still wavered on tax reduction, was almost talked out of it by three powerful forces: Oklahoma's late Senator Robert Kerr; Cabinet members; and Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, then the U.S.'s Ambassador to India, whose "long shadow had fallen across the White House." Finally, the tide was turned by businessmen. In a speech to the Economic Club of New York late in 1962, Kennedy extolled the good sense of tax cuts and got such a rousing reception from 2,000 business leaders that he himself became convinced and proceeded to press enthusiastically for reductions. Said...
...Heller, have a new understanding of the role of private investment Practically no one any longer sees danger in rising federal debts and rising wages-as long as the economy grows faster than the debt, and labor productivity grows faster than labor costs. The gloomy science of economics has fallen on happy times because old economic ideologies are dead...
From the Continental Divide to the Pacific shore, the Mexican border to the Arctic Ocean, only one statehouse remained in Democratic control last week. Even the lone holdout in Salt Lake City most likely would have fallen to the G.O.P. if Governor Calvin Rampton did not have two more years to serve. Of all the West's Democratic gubernatorial candidates, only Incumbent John Burns in Hawaii survived the pervasive Republican wind. Another possible Democratic winner is Alaska's William Egan, who withdrew an early concession in hopes that a recount and a tally of absentee ballots would return...
Ready to Drop. Because stamps are a nuisance to handle-and cost about 2% of sales-many retailers are happy to give them up when the competition does. The Georgia Association of Petroleum Retailers says that the percentage of stamp-giving filling stations in the state has fallen from about 35% to less than 25% over the past six years. In some Florida markets, 80% of the stations have abandoned stamps...