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...stakes were rising in Ian Smith's daring game against the British. Rhodesians jammed the downtown streets of Salisbury and Bulawayo in a carefree holiday shopping spree, while shopkeepers demonstrated their support of the poker-faced Prime Minister by decorating their windows with his picture, draped in tinsel and purple bunting. But in the rest of Africa, black men were lacing their indignation at Smith's breakaway regime with ugly threats...
According to the consistently accurate Michigan Economic Forecast, un employment will dip from the current 4.3% to below 4% - the level that the President's Council of Economic Advisers regards as full employment. The high-living U.S. consumer shows no sign of ending his five-year shopping spree, is currently spending 950 out of every $1 he earns. So durable is the boom, said the London Economist, that "analysts and businessmen may even stop counting the months...
...seeds of the present crisis go back to the early 1900s, when a young reform-minded President named José Battle y Ordóñez started the country on a spree of welfare-statism. He and his successors set up workmen's compensation, minimum-wage and old-age-pension plans, organized a sprawl of government industries (insurance, electricity, petroleum refining) to cut consumer costs and-in an effort to guarantee democracy-replaced Uruguay's one-man presidency with a nine-man National Council. As benefits piled on benefits, the Council became less a government than a gigantic...
...short, not overly bright, and bowlegged from years of polo. Yet Porfirio Rubirosa parlayed his genius for making women forget all that into 30 years of grand spree on the international circuit, a private fortune, a worldwide reputation as the last of the Casanovas, and lawful unions with five of the world's most beautiful, or else most spectacularly wealthy women...
...remaining 67- for barely enough to cover his mortgage in terest and taxes. In Detroit, eager home buyers last week snapped up new houses faster than contractors could complete them, and builders were sold out three months ahead of production. In Phoe nix, where a four-year building spree has produced a 20% vacancy rate in apartments, economists are predicting that it will take two years to absorb the oversupply. Yet in Cleveland, realty men talk happily of a sellers' market and are planning more subdivisions than at any time since...