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...odorless, and so potent that a gram, equal to one million micrograms, or 10,000 trips, could be stashed in a single cigarette. So far, illegal LSD is manufactured largely by amateurs, but potential profits represent a strong temptation for organized crime. Tougher legislation will probably make LSD scarcer and therefore more expensive...
...Jersey withdrawal was a significant sign that scarcer and costlier money-that classic tranquilizer for a souped-up economy-was finally starting to restrain spending. Another sign: the National Industrial Conference Board reported that the nation's 1,000 largest corporations, which account for 75% of business capital spending, are making plans to expand less rapidly than they did a year earlier...
...nation's most ramshackle major industry-housing-had hoped to rebuild this year, but it appears that the roof is still caving in. Reason: mortgage credit has grown scarcer and costlier since the Federal Reserve Board's recent increase in the discount rate. The board's overall purpose was to prevent inflation. But, the predictable side effect on housing of its move was to inflate prices and discourage buyers in a $25 billion-a-year business that has been slumping since late 1963, despite unprecedented prosperity throughout the rest of the economy. "The general tightening in mortgage...
...skills become scarcer, the Government's economic policymakers are beginning to criticize a trend that they once favored. Says Otto Eckstein, a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "It is not in the economy's interest to encourage widespread early retirement." The Administration is thus splitting away from the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which says that it will continue to press the fight for retire-ment-before-65 and higher pensions...
With desirable land becoming scarcer, developers are turning to marginal plots in areas as far as 45 or 50 miles from the heart of the city and brightening them with come-ons-Olympic-size swimming pools, tennis courts and teen-age "centers." Builders are offering various forms of walled-in courtyards, patios or other places for private outdoor entertainment or relaxation. In Boston, houses with atria-R oman-style enclosed courtyards-will go on sale next spring...