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...live on, were promised a six-hour workday ("this will come within ten years"). But at the 21st Party Congress three years ago, this same starry goal was promised for 1961; it was even part of Lenin's grandiose scheme of 1919. The draft plan spoke of a "fourfold increase" in meat production during the next two decades, but discreetly did not quote Moscow's own published statistics showing the slaughter rate to be increasing at a mere 5% annually...
Rolling Money. There is no denying that, for the man in charge, Indonesia is a good place to get away from, these days. Prices have risen fourfold in the past seven years; the production of Indonesia's important palm-oil and rubber estates is down at least 30% compared to pre-World War II. Sugar, which used to be a major export, is now so scarce that in places it can be found only on the black market. The government's presses are rolling out paper money that has no backing. Bureaucracy is so rampant that 32 separate...
...Parisian Painter Yves Klein. He has his nude models smear themselves with paint, then lets them hurl themselves at a blank canvas while he shouts directions from a stepladder. By such tricks, Klein has become at 32 the fad of gallery-going France, and his prices have risen fourfold in the past two years. Last week he invaded West Germany with an eyebrow-raising exhibit in the textile town of Krefeld, twelve miles northwest of Düsseldorf. The good people of Krefeld hardly knew what to make...
...questions that the future would ask about his Administration, said Kennedy, were fourfold: "Were we truly men of courage? Were we truly men of judgment? Were we truly men of integrity? Were we truly men of dedication-with an honor mortgaged to no single individual or group, and compromised by no private obligation or aim, but devoted solely to serving the public good and the national interest...
...HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE. Federal outlays for medical research increased more than fourfold. The National Defense Education Act of 1958, "a milestone in the history of American education," provided federal funds to improve school curriculums, train additional teachers and furnish scholarships for bright youngsters whose parents cannot afford to send them to college. Social security coverage was broadened to include an additional n million persons...