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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article on inflation in the U.S. [June 20] will leave many Europeans puzzled. In view of the market prices you publish, which strike us as being generally much lower than those quoted in Western Europe for similar articles, the predicament of the cited middle-income families is difficult to understand. Our market basket is certainly much more expensive than the U.S. housewife's, but in Europe no $25,000-income family would think it had to do without its annual vacation or renewing its dining-room chairs, and an $8,600-income family would certainly not be looked upon...
...registered with any nation. Altogether, Japan's exports in 1968 rose by 25%, and its shipments to the U.S. accounted for more than two-fifths of the gain. The reason, many aggrieved U.S. businessmen contend, is that Japan has been flooding American markets with goods made at far lower wage rates than any U.S. company could get away with paying. Some $400 million worth of textiles were notable among those exports. Southern Congressmen have set up a rising clamor for quotas to restrain the influx, and the textile issue has become a symbolic...
...also, have a building code in Cambridge, which regulates the construction of new buildings. If we are to encourage innovative new methods of constructing lower cost housing, we must adopt a "performance standard" building code, specifically the BOCA code which has received considerable national attention and has already been adopted by a number of localities. This code, rather than limiting construction to a select few methods, sets up minimum standards of strength, durability and safety. Then any system of building which meets those standards can be accepted for use in the city. It is an inclusive rather than exclusive code...
...hopes that my success wouldn't change me or spoil my outlook." The new Open winner also received a call from President Richard Nixon. "He said my winning was a great thing for this country," Moody recalls. "Not for the elite, but for the middle and lower classes. I don't know what he meant by that exactly." But he did understand the President's advice that he should remain a civilian rather than re-enlist in the Army, because "you are doing better where you are." That was one order from the Commander in Chief that...
...night; all of it goes into a communal kitty. Now and then one of them buys a color TV set, but mostly they are socking away their new wealth and trying not to think too much about it lest it give them high-flown ideas. "I see things through lower-class eyes," says John. "If you sit around and think about all that money, you can never write a song about where you came from...