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Luxurious Demand. "Consumer spending is not falling, but it is shifting -from autos to services, from appliances to apparel,'' says Commerce Department Economist Louis Paradise. The housing collapse has hurt markets for furniture, floor coverings, refrigerators and washers. Yet retailers note substantial increases in demand for costly clothes...
Willie plays it noble. "To you gentlemen," he announces in a sepulchral tremolo, "it's just a question of money, but to me it's a personal tragedy." Willie plays it dirty. Before the insurance doctors examine his client, he needles his left leg and right arm with...
> Greta Starks was 24 when she acquired a married admirer of 55 who became virtually her sole means of support. For five years, Greta's great and good friend in Detroit showered her with furs, furniture, a new car, a weekly allowance and cash enough to buy a house...
Awaiting his internship, Hammer felt the call to perform some international good deeds. He bought a surplus field-hospital unit, including ambulance, from the U.S. Government, took it to Russia with every intention of providing medical treatment for the peasants. But when he discovered the famine in the Volga region...
Costly Shows. Jan. 1, 1966 also brought some tax sweets along with the sour-at least in theory. In the second stage of a long-term Government rollback on excise taxes, cuts from .04% to 20% went into effect on items from stock transactions to club dues. The first cutback...