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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Continuing inflation has intensified the debate about a cure and how long the task will take. At a Hot Springs, Va., meeting of the Business Council, a group of corporate executives who generally support the Johnson Administration's policies, there were plenty of questions about what the next president might have to do. The consensus of 20 council economists was that an economic slowdown next year, however temporary, would tempt a new Administration to ease off on the brakes prematurely. The result might be more inflation, followed by a "major recession" in late 1970 and early...
...year. Meanwhile, the value of European-owned plants and equipment on U.S. soil is rising sharply. The total crept up from $2.2 billion in 1950 to $7 billion last year, will sprint to $10 billion this year. That may be only the beginning. In a recent speech before a group of U.S. bankers, Jacques Maisonrouge, the French-born head of IBM World Trade Corp., echoed the conviction of many businessmen that the U.S.-European-investment "pendulum is now swinging the other...
Muriel Spark's novels are somewhat predictable in form, but they'are always brief, funny, shrewd and a little daft. Usually, she takes a group of similar people-bachelors, schoolgirls, residents of a hamlet-and throws them into a common dilemma. The Public Image departs from that pattern...
...group decides to die together when the time comes, instead of waiting for the agency truck to pick them up. Meanwhile, they will leave a record of their comments on the generation gap, their values, a personal account of what they loved most. Set down by Kate, this testament is liveliest when it reflects Marya Mannes' own penchant for high-class invective. During their sex talks, the painter howl-, "Don't tell me the sexual revolution was made by those pre-nubile, fur-bearing match-sticks...
...executes his revolution from above more or less indirectly, carrying suggestions from one group to another, completing or urging the completion of half-formed plans. He assembles dinners and meetings in the hope that those convoked will somehow adhere and persist. His aim is the old one of making something out of the curious mixture of professors, tutors and undergraduates who sit down to lunch every day beneath the glum stare of the 14-point moose who surveys the House dining room...