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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been bolstered by war and galloping inflation. Though Premier Nguyen Cao Ky's hands appear clean, the resort town of Dalat is dotted with the elaborate villas of his generals, whose modest salaries are obviously being supplemented from other sources. The squeeze runs on down into the lower echelons. One high government official pulls out a document detailing the history of a pig between a Delta farm and a Saigon slaughterhouse. The farmer gets 6,800 piasters (about $57), and truck transport is another 400. But on the 50-mile journey, the pig has to pass through seven National...
Moving lithely (her weight down to 96 Ibs.) to stage center, Judy opens with I Feel a Song Coming On. In the lower registers, at least, she still has the old belting power. "My, I'm a loud lady," she says, striking the well-known hands-on-hips pose. "No crooner, I." Next is Almost Like Being in Love. Then The Trolley Song, and by now the fans are clanging time with their feet. For Me and My Gal turns into a community sing. She wonders: "What should I do now?" Man in the mezzanine: "Just stand there." Judy...
...highly literate readers, normally carries nothing more than large-type announcements of what is inside. What is inside is words, with a sprinkling of pen-and-ink caricatures with oversized heads by David Levin. Last week, to the wondering eyes of its white, middle-class readers, Review devoted the lower third of a cover dealing with books on Negro rebellion to a detailed, do-it-yourself diagram of a Molotov cocktail. Some were amused, some were startled, none were likely to make much use of the blueprint. What was meant to give everybody a bang turned out to be just...
...National Council on the Arts and the J. M. Kaplan Fund announced a joint project to convert the eight-building Bell Telephone Laboratories on Manhattan's Lower West Side into a $10 million artists' center providing housing for 500 painters, writers, musicians, dancers and film makers. At the same time, Lyons Houses, which owns' a chain of dollar-a-night hotels on New York's Bowery (where artists have traditionally hobnobbed with derelicts) began renovating one of them, the Alabama, into studio housing, eventually may follow suit with others. And in Brooklyn Heights, the city...
...increase tends to slow the economy by restricting the ability of individuals and corporations to spend. In the absence of an economic boom, however, a tax increase tends to further depress economic conditions. In an economy operating at a slower pace, less consumer spending would result in lower tax revenues, thereby negating the beneficial effect of any tax increase...