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...People's Income Doubling Plan," Japan's Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda decided that his nation's economic growth rate (a phenomenal 17.7% in 1960) would soon stabilize at an average 7% a year. On that basis, he calculated, Japan could boost its gross national product from null $39.8 billion to $72 billion by 1970. But last week Japan's growth rate was still clipping along at over 13%-and the Japanese economy was suffering from too much boom...
...weather F4H fighter bombers for close air support. In testimony before a House subcommittee, Marine Commandant General David Shoup complained: "We have more fight than we can ferry." To ferry in marines and G.I.s when the brush fires begin to burn, the bill calls for 119 new null and C-135 Air Force transports...
Clarence Burke, 55, formerly head of the high-voltage switchgear department in null division (he got a 30-day suspended sentence), testified that in 1957 he got a telephone call from W. V. O'Brien, a top G.E. sales executive, who said that "he had been ordered by Mr. Paxton to bring about price stabilization." Price stabilization, explained Burke, "meant to contact competitors and get agreements on price...
...null Detmold, W. Germany...
...devastating parodist, whether in a single line about "The Confessions of St. Augustine, as told to Gerold Frank," or in the full-sized parodies of Vladimir Nabokov ("To watch Lolita sit at the kitchen table and play jacks was to know what Aristotle meant by pity and terror"), or null Sagan: that timeless moment when the bored geriatric lover gets out of the bored hoyden's bed and hops up and down to get his circulation going. And like all humorists, she thrives on embellishment, taking small facts and inflating them into outrageous acts of hyperbole. When...