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...fastest-growing newspaper in Japan is not one of its five giant dailies with circulations of a million or more, but the Wall Street Journal of Japan's business world, Nikon Keizai Shimbun (circ...
Time & Money. The man on the porch is a member of the U.S.'s fastest-growing minority-the so-called aged. Because of modern medicine. U.S. citizens are living longer. In the first half of the 20th century, life expectancy at birth increased 17.6 years for men and 20.3 years for women. Today 17.4 million U.S. citizens are 65 or over. Between 1950 and 1960, the over-65 population increased about twice as fast as the total population. Between 1920 and 1960, the number of people 75 or more increased by 279%, and the number 85 and older increased...
Japan, having had a fling at making its own westerns (starring Jo Shishido, whom studio admen modestly call the "third fastest gun in the world"-after Gary Cooper and Alan Ladd), is still watching 20 U.S.-made western serials on television. In two glorious years, though, Nikkatsu studios turned out nearly 30 eastern westerns, starting with The Quickdrawer and finally losing heart with Mexican Vagabond this year. Mexico was the nearest Nikkatsu dared come to the real thing. Said a studio spokesman: "We have too great respect for American cowboys to invade the real wild West...
...ambitious A.K.U., however, the Dutch market is not big enough. One of the fastest growers in the growth field of man-made textiles, the company masterminds a web of subsidiaries, affiliates and joint ventures that extends all the way from Austria to Mexico, and now has 37 factories built or abuilding in eight countries. Last year its gross of $497 million put it neck and neck with Britain's Courtaulds, Ltd. for the No. 2 ranking in worldwide sales of artificial fibers...
Trouble Ahead. Bound in hard covers, the potato serials formed a vast sub-literature whose authors typed fast, grew rich, and pretended to be wistful about critical neglect. Among the fastest and richest was Faith Baldwin, whose income reached six figures a year during the '30s and '40s, and who has written, under her own name and pseudonyms, at least 100 books Edmund Wilson has never heard of. Editors loved her because she was dependable and fast. Once, with no perceptible quickening in pace, she clicked off a 12,000-word novella during a four-day coast...