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...beginning of another that held promise of destroying tradition as well as records. Steel re-exerted its role as a bellwether of the economy, hitting its highest output level (109 million tons) in six years. The number of Americans holding down jobs swelled to 70 million, and the average paycheck was heftier than ever before. All this added up to a gross national product of $584 billion-a very respectable $29 billion more than last year. As 1963 ended, the U.S. economy was in the 34th month of recovery, and only a few months away from producing the longest sustained...
...eleven short months. Jack ("Baby Beef") Nicklaus has won the U.S. Open (prize: $15,000). the World Series of Golf ($50,000), the Seattle Open ($4,300). the Portland Open ($3,500), the Palm Springs Golf Classic ($9,000). and the Masters ($20,000). He has collected a paycheck in all but two of the 37 professional tournaments he has entered, and he has finished among the top ten in 24. Last week, in the Las Vegas Tournament of Champions. Jack Nicklaus-doggone him anyway-got richer still. Ah, but the way he did it. On opening...
...grown up counting our pennies and sorting everything out so we can see what we've got left." Another factor not so widely acknowledged is that many canny British workmen never tell their wives what they make, and would not like them to find out by reading the paycheck...
...should it ever become necessary for the child actually to go to sleep. And if, throughout the nine months of her pregnancy, the mother-to-be remains as slim and svelte as she appears in the magazines, then it is possible that what she is expecting is a paycheck rather than a baby, and that she is no mother but a fashion model...
...Neal J. Dean, partner in charge of management information systems, sees the day when all banks will cease being banks as people know them and become a network of computer-run "financial utilities." When that day arrives, the depositor may not even get a glimpse of his paycheck. His employer would send it directly to the bank, and he would need only a banking credit card, good for buying against his deposits everything from Kleenex to Cadillacs...