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Bearing out the national income system's noninflationary message last week was more prosaic evidence detectable in every pocketbook. Though the consumer price index edged up in March to a record 105% of the 1957-59 average, its total increase since March 1961 has amounted to only 1.1%. And since 1960, the value of the dollar has been eroded only 1.8%, v. 3.7% between...
...that "we have always been much stronger on civil rights than the Democrats, always." Speaking positively, he suggested the possibility of federal jurisdiction over state voting procedures. He explained the Republican failure to carry the Negro vote in 1960 as a direct indication that the "Negro is voting his pocketbook rather than his race...
Last week the U.S. got weary of Phoumi's rearing and backing, and hit him where it hurt: in the pocketbook. Leary of outright sanctions, the U.S. put the pressure on by failing to deposit the regular monthly aid payment of $4,000,000 with the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. With a straight face, U.S. officials announced that "administrative snags" caused the delay. The U.S. aim: to make Phoumi and Boun Oum go to Geneva for more talks with the permanent international conference on Laos. But Phoumi was not about to buy a plane ticket for Geneva...
Unlike men-who have everything because they are content to keep what they have for years-women never have enough. "You can always hang another piece of jewelry on a woman," says one man. She needs more than one pocketbook, for example, while a man seldom changes his wallet; the only thing she doesn't need more than one of is her wedding ring...
...Kwaku Boateng often throws himself on his knees in Nkrumah's presence and cries: "Osagyefo, you are my God." Other associates snicker at the Osagyefo legend, but exploit it to further their own ambition. Ghana's masses are openly skeptical of the Nkrumah cult. Hit in the pocketbook by prohibitive compulsory savings taxes and threatened with jail at every turn, they are in a rebellious frame of mind. Barricaded behind Bren guns in the presidential residence, Nkrumah is becoming increasingly aware of the people's mood and is fearful that they might find a strong leader...