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...great spate of Administration-sponsored bills, only one of any substance has been passed so far by both houses-a measure to provide job retraining for unemployed workers. Aside from that, almost all the Administration's highly touted proposals are either dead or dying -medicare, a Cabinet-level Department of Urban Affairs, farm program, tax revision. Realistically, about the best the President can hope for from now on is favorable action on his expanded foreign trade program, and on a foreign aid bill of sorts...
...Dismal East. Despite West Berlin's stability, there was just a touch of tension in the air last week. Part of it came from the spate of new rumors that Moscow will soon sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, a move that would bring new efforts to shut off West Berliners' few remaining access routes to the West. West Berliners were also nervous at the chance that hordes of restive East Germans might choose the Wall's anniversary as an occasion for a mass escape attempt through the 95 miles of concrete, barbed wire...
Each year fascinated old grads keep coming back for more, often hauling parents along to make sure they get the point. Among the results: a spate of science-fair winners, many college-forestry majors-and platoons of reformed parents. "I've been camping out for 30 years," says one father, "but my boy has taught me things I never knew. If I dropped a spent match out of a car window these days, I think he'd make me stop, walk back, pick it up and spit...
With spring comes a revival of the gypsy instinct in the U.S. family. For the determined weekenders heading for the shore, the mountains or the lake, there is a spate of new items designed to aid and comfort...
...Stimuli. The market's lackluster performance was all the more baffling in the light of last week's spate of encouraging economic news. Personal income in March, the Commerce Department reported, rose $2 billion above the February figure to a record annual rate of $435 billion. More important, the consumers were spending their fat paychecks: even allowing for the effects of a later Easter this year, department-store sales for the second week in April were up 6% over 1961. and auto sales were running a whopping 48% above last year. The only important indicator that...