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...increase was a welcome relief not only for stores but for the economy as a whole. Retail sales have generally been running at their slowest pace in two years. The decline is sharpest in such durable-goods lines as autos, where production is at its lowest point since 1961. Detroit last week reported a 21.4% drop in auto sales for the second ten days of February. The decline has also been felt in such nondurables as clothing and household goods, which in the final quarter of 1966 showed their slowest sales gains in three years. Moreover, food purchases, which have...
There is less reason for optimism about prices. High wage demands are certain, a tax increase a possibility. Corporate profits are expected to grow, but at the slowest rate since 1961. Johnson appealed to both labor and management to avoid a "disastrous" chain reaction of wage-price rises, while the CEA put most of the onus on business: "The public interest requires that producers absorb cost increases to the maximum extent feasible." At least 700 union contracts are up for negotiation this year; the outcome can only be guessed...
...would not be Latin if it did not include a few thorns. For one thing, it comes at a time when many predict that the country is headed for a recession. The tightness of credit has dried up cash, and consumers have little to spend. Christmas shopping is the slowest in memory. Worse still is the spreading fear that all the foreign money means that Brazil is losing its national identity. American advisers are so much in evidence at the economic ministry that Brazilians bitterly joke that more English than Portuguese is spoken there. Some nationalists consider Roberto Campos...
Prix Driver (and 1962 champion) Graham Hill, 37, who on his first try at Indy ground around the course at an average speed of 144.317 m.p.h., the slowest since...
...spacecraft travel, this was surely the slowest trip on record-nine hours to cover all of 3½ miles. But as it moved from NASA's Vertical Assembly Building to launch pad 39-A at Cape Kennedy last week, the mammoth Saturn 5 rocket, an engineless version of the vehicle that will take the first U.S. astronauts to the moon, crawled through an impressive catalogue of superlatives. This was the largest rocket in the world, emerging from the largest building in the world, to travel on one of the largest self-propelled land vehicles in the world...