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...rather than unwisely committing him in advance to a specific course of action. Moreover, warned Missouri's Governor Warren Hearnes, an unconditional bombing halt could endanger U.S. servicemen. Boggs cited a statement by U.S. Viet Nam Commander Creighton Abrams to the effect that a bombing halt would mean a fivefold increase in enemy strength in the area of the Demilitarized Zone within two weeks. Many military experts consider Abrams' estimate an exaggeration...
...Bleustein-Blanchet took a tentative step toward sex in an advertising campaign for Rosy brassieres. The original ad showed little more than a woman's torso, with the arms folded discreetly across the chest. But the campaign's success-sales of Rosy bras have increased fivefold-has convinced French admen that frankness can bring in the francs. As a result, their ads have been getting increasingly more daring. A recent Rosy ad, for example, pictures a woman wearing a lacy bra, but otherwise she is bare to well below the navel; partially visible behind...
...cities are filled with colorful merchandise of fair to high quality. The regime is even doing something for those millions of Russians who have never known the luxury of dry cleaning: the government has grandly announced that the number of dry-cleaning plants across the country will be increased fivefold...
...only reluctantly, and by timid ½% stages, cut its discount rate from 5% to 3%, the lowest in Europe except for Switzerland and Portugal. In the first five months of this year, industrial production slipped 5.3%, consumer goods output 9%, construction 13%. The number of unemployed in February rose fivefold from its 1966 low, to 674,000, or 3.1% of the work force, very high by German standards...
...according to exiles, had not come from Florida but from a "secret base" outside U.S. jurisdiction. There seemed little doubt on that score. For over a year, the U.S. has tried to restrain anti-Castroites from such exciting but basically pointless adventures.†The surveillance has been in creased fivefold since the Cuban refugee evacuation began last month with a rush of small boats from Florida; now that Castro has signed a "memorandum of understanding" to set up an airlift of 3,000-4,000 refugees a month, no one wants to give him any excuse to renege...