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...entire movie takes place during Dennis Barlow's unlikely visit to the United States. He was at the airport in London when suddenly he became the ten millionth person to see someone off and won a free trip to Calcutta or Los Angeles. Poor guy chose you-know-what and plunged himself into an incredible chamber of horrors. Shortly after Barlow's arrival his British uncle, a failure in the movie industry, commits suicide, leaving the hapless boy to make all the funeral arrangements--and what funeral arrangements...
Auto sales in mid-April were 14% greater than a year ago, and Detroit's six-millionth car of the model year rolled off the production line three weeks ahead of the 1964 pace. Orders for machine tools hit a nine-month peak in March. U.S. industry is spending considerably more this year on plant expansion and new equipment than originally estimated; at the present rate, 1965 capital spending is expected to soar 15%, to more than $51 billion...
...Next 10 Million. Opel increased production last year by 20%, but to keep up the pace it recently bought land in Kaiserslautern for a new plant, its fourth in Germany. This month G.M. rolled out its 10 millionth vehicle produced in 41 years of operations overseas; at the rate it is going now, it will turn out the next 10 million in only seven years. For Roche, one personal result of G.M.'s spectacular European gains has been his rise to serious contention for the G.M. presidency, from which John Gordon retires...
...gotta get 'em in the tent." Every exhibit clamors for the attention of the passing public-and then goes on to hammer real knowledge into the heads of people ranging in age, as Lohr puts it, "from two to toothless." The museum, which just received its 50 millionth visitor, is probably the world's biggest institution of informal, nonobligatory mass scientific education...
SOCIAL SECURITY, WELFARE. "And let me also repeat-for perhaps the one-millionth time, lest there be any doubt in anyone's mind-that I support the Social Security system, and I want to see it strengthened. Under a Goldwater-Miller Administration, every American will be assured of a compassionate and understanding approach by the Federal Government to the human problems growing out of automation, the rising costs incident to catastrophic illness, unemployment, the costs of education and the like...