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...nationwide number of travelers using mass transit has risen an average 4.4% a month over the preceding year, to an estimated 27,775,000 a day. In May, as California began taking the brunt of the first gasoline shortfalls, ridership across the U S Climbed 7.3%. Mass transit experts prediet that the June figures will show an increase "in the double digits," perhaps adding up to a two-month gain of 2 million travelers each...
...most economists are not unduly concerned by the slowdown. They continue to prediet a 6% increase in real G.N.P. (not counting inflation) for the remainder of this year and a reduction in the level of joblessness to 7%. Even so, growth in second-half profits is likely to slow down. One reason for the strong first-half showing is that companies were able to raise prices faster than their labor costs went up, thus improving profit margins. That advantage will diminish in the months ahead as the economy picks up momentum and industry comes closer to using its full capacity...
Weakness in the Air. Though China's air force ranks third in size in the world (behind the U.S. and Russia), its 2,900 planes are mostly obsolete MIG-15s and 17s. Western experts prediet that China will soon start turning out a few advanced MIG-19 and 21 jets on its own, but production will be slow and light. In any air clash with U.S. Navy and Air Force jets over Southeast Asia, Mao's planes would certainly be swept from the skies in a matter of days. Even the Chinese Nationalists, flying slow F-86 Sabre...
...some important decisions will have to be made by Johnson because events necessitate them--for example, in South Viet Nam and in relations with the Soviet Union. Unclear, perhaps contradictory, Kennedy policies in other areas--notably the Alliance for Progress--will demand further decisions. "It is absolutely impossible to prediet," said Hoffmann, "what will happen in these decisions...
...plate dinner, "I am so proud of being a member of the Republican Party ... We are not trying to go back to the horsecars; we are not trying to fly to Mars." ^f Golfed with two Augusta Masters Tournament winners, Gary Middlecoff and Byron Nelson. When Nelson said, "I prediet you shoot a 68 today, Mr. President," Ike replied: "You shoot the 68, and I'll shoot the 86." The President lost at golf; Nelson lost at predicting. C| Awarded the "Handicapped Man of the Year" trophy to Judge Sam M. Cathey of Asheville, N.C., who was blinded...
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