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Making Their Own. Chapters of Mrs. Hutner's POOFF Inc. last week broke ground in Middle America. Nebraska POOFF Chairman Mrs. Sylvia Bayless last week led her band of protesters to their first mass rally at a Bellvue shopping center. The theme-"Wear a Mini, Bring Your Man to Protest the Midi" -drew 1,000 sympathizers, all of whom dutifully signed on the dotted lines of petitions. Says Mrs. Charlotte Darwin of Goldsboro, N.C., of her prospective...
...young politicians were discussing was hemlines. The subject heated up as a result of Mme. Georges Pompidou's triumphant American tour with those calf-clutching Longuettes from Paris. In women's eyes, at least, Mme. Pompidou just may have tipped the scales in the year's mini-midi-maxi skirmish. In the front line of the battle, Los Angeles-based James Galanos became the first American designer to drop all hemlines below the knee; Paris' Bernard Lanvin is scraping ankles. Manhattan's Geoffrey Beene alone seems determined to keep the knee in the public domain...
...Mini-Micro. Now Walter Heller makes this forecast: real G.N.P. may decline at annual rates of 0.5% this quarter and next, on top of a drop at an annual rate of 0.4% in the last quarter of 1969. An upturn will begin in the second half, fueled by higher Social Security benefits and the scheduled July end to the income surtax. By the fourth quarter, the rebound will have "visible means of support." Dollar G.N.P. for 1970 will run between $980 billion and $985 billion, about $5 billion below the most common forecast of board members last December, but just...
...recessions of the past two decades. Industrial production dropped as much as 15%, corporate profits fell 21% to 30%, and unemployment rates hit peaks of 6% to 8%. Heller says it is a toss-up whether the situation the board majority foresees should be called a recession; he suggests "mini-micro recession." The important thing, adds Pechman, is that 'the U.S. is experiencing "a policy-induced pause" because of severe monetary and fiscal restraint on a naturally ebullient economy, rather than the more dangerous type of recession that is caused by basic weakness in business...
...theme of Expo '70 is progress and harmony, but last week the fairgrounds seemed to reflect paltry progress and considerable confusion. Workmen darted among unfinished buildings. Girl guides drilled in mini-toga uniforms. Postmen roared around on scarlet scooters, learning their routes. Policemen studied plans for coping with the expected influx of pickpockets and prostitutes...