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...Hills. A Marlboro-type man is seen puffing happily in a duck blind. Cut. The sound track plays Smoke Gets in Your Eyes while a Winston kind of couple revels in a shipboard romance. Cut. A Salem-style twosome, high on tobacco and each other, enjoy an apres-ski spree. How can such a splice-up of burnt-out cliches sell cigarettes? That's the point. The voiceover during the 60-second spot has been saying right along: "Cigarette smoke contains some interesting elements: carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, benzopyrene, hydrogen cyanide. Cigarette smoke has been related to increased rates of lung...
...possibility rather than a virtual certainty. In any case, many of this year's buyers, whether they prefer U.S. or foreign models, plainly went into the market for the same reason: the time had come to trade in cars that they had bought during the previous record sales spree of three years...
...continuing spending spree, reported the Commerce Department last week, swelled the nation's gross national product during the year's third quarter to a record annual rate of $870.8 billion, an 8% increase over the comparable quarter of last year...
...market's N.Y.S.E.'s performance reflected another lively argument-the one among securities analysts about the market's actual strength. Those of bearish mind argue that higher income taxes will shortly begin to quell the consumer buying spree that has kept the U.S. economy humming. As evidence that there is little real steam behind the market surge, they cite the fact that trading volume on the Big Board has slipped below its spring torrent. The bulls point to such rosy predictions as last week's forecast by the National Association of Business Economists that the economy...
Confounding the Forecasters. The economy's summer performance has indeed surprised almost everybody. "The consumer has confounded the forecasters by spending as much money after the tax increase as before," says Leif Olsen, senior vice president and economist of Manhattan's First National City Bank. That buying spree has been especially notable in autos, appliances and clothing. Retail sales not only jumped 3% in July to a record $29 billion, but climbed a bit more during August. Early figures for September indicated that shoppers were spending 9% more in the stores than they were a year earlier...