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...Larger Sense. Devaluation may enable Britain to boost its exports (notably autos, appliances and aircraft) enough to erase a quarter of its trade deficit, but it will hit the pocketbook of every Briton. Grocers warned that food prices will rise at least 5%, starting with imported fruit, meat and vegetables. The cost of living normally jumps when food-importing Britain devalues. This time the price increases seem likely to touch off a new round of wage demands that Prime Minister Wilson, no longer armed with pay-freeze powers, will have trouble restraining. Promising that his complex web of economic restrictions...
Inflation could rob Johnson of the potentially powerful pocketbook issue. G.O.P. orators are already putting emphasis on the phrase "profitless prosperity." Though the President may be tempted to campaign on the theme of "You never had it so good," it is doubtful that U.S. voters will give him all the credit. "They think that they had something to do with it, too," says a Democratic strategist. Johnson contends that his proposed 10% surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes would help avert inflation, but he is having little luck in persuading Congress. Unless the surcharge is enacted, he warns...
...effect on the author's pocketbook. Philadelphian Jacqueline Susann, an advocate of brotherly, sisterly, fatherly, motherly, and potato love, has made it to "the top of Mount Everest" as her dolls have not. Writing in an orange, red, and yellow den which she wittily calls "the chamber of horrors," the former acrtess and five-time winner of the Best-Dressed TV Star award has stirred up a honeypot and attracted all the bees from the shyest bus driver to 20th-Century...
...present, Millie offers a classic lesson in box-office brilliance. No sex (Julie Andrews changes clothes in a closet while the camera lounges around outside), no philosophy, no violence, only a homespun little message for homespun little girls: follow the dictates of your heart rather than your pocketbook, and your man will turn out to be a millionaire...
...control the client. If they haven't paid for advice, they won't take it." Foreman has also boasted that his fee methods top mere law in chastising any of his clients who may be guilty. As he puts it: "I can punish them through the pocketbook, where it really hurts...