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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slums & Culture. As they move into statehood, Hawaiians have their share of juvenile delinquency, traffic snarls, slums and crime, but they also have an extraordinarily high literacy rate (more than 98%), a topflight university (coming soon: a $200,000 East-West Cultural Exchange Center), a fine art academy and a symphony orchestra; and bustling new suburban complexes, studded with ranch houses. They appreciate some of the typical social aspects of U.S. mainland life as well: they love baseball, guzzle more soda pop and eat more hot dogs than the people of any other state...
...rate, Shakespeare created his weirdest world--universe, I should perhaps say--in Macbeth. And its words somehow penetrate to the very marrow of one's bones and take possession of one's whole being; Shakespeare here reaches in us the three states he has plumbed so deeply in his characters: the conscious, the sub-conscious, and the unconscious. The last two are states that we today really understand little better than do the characters in the play; the people in Macbeth are constantly baffled (what other play contains such a large proportion of questions?), and so are we. Much...
This was the good news behind last week's report from the President's Council of Economic Advisers that U.S. economic activity in the second quarter climbed to a record yearly rate of $483.5 billion. Even the Government's economists were surprised at the rise of $13.3 billion from the last quarter, $49 billion up from a year ago. They had hoped that the U.S. economy would show enough strength to reach the $500 billion mark by mid-1960. But the economy has snapped back from the recession-and hurtled on-faster than the most glowing optimists...
Even conservative economists now expect that-barring a steel strike more than six weeks long-the economy will roll steadily on to $490 billion in the current quarter. Then only a few weeks will separate it from the half-trillion-dollar threshold. At that rate of growth, the U.S. economy will hit the $750 billion mark before...
...cost to the customer of as little as $49.95. On some models, the company is replacing the transmission free of charge, exchanging washer-dryer combinations for new, separate, 1959 washer and dryer units that are delivered and initially serviced free. The rush to redeem machines at a bargain rate has been crushing; Hotpoint has had to turn down housewives who hoped to palm off 20-year-old ringer-type washers, made by firms long out of business, for new models. To keep the machines off the used-washer market, Hotpoint dealers are stripping the motors, sledgehammering the machines to bits...