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Though he turned 60 last week, Nelson Rockefeller showed all the ebullience of a conventioneering Jaycee as he bounced from coast to coast in a spurt of razzle-dazzle campaigning. He rode a motorized ricksha and a cable car in San Francisco, a trolley in St. Louis, a stern-wheeler on the Ohio near Louisville, and a pea-green convertible in Wall Street. He still was not riding any bandwagon, but in Miami, at least, he got a surprise present: an endorsement from Florida Governor Claude Kirk-the first Southern Governor to support him to date. Then, Pennsylvania...
Halfway through the car model-year, automakers were elated to learn last week that sales during the normally dull quarter from January to March were surprisingly high. A spurt of car buying during the last ten days of March had already started Detroiters smiling, but it was not until overall figures were published that their most optimistic extrapolations could be verified. More than 2,000,000 cars were sold in the quarter-up 18% over the same months of 1967. The volume for the first quarter of 1968 was surpassed only in the record years...
...years when he was trying to maintain his "big tent" consensus. Congress, for example, can expect a gale of presidential messages, and while the men on Capitol Hill are not notably generous to Presidents whose terms are drawing to a close, they may be spurred to act by a spurt in Johnson's popularity...
...Cohen believes, follow cycles, and can only be hastened slowly. The early part of the New Deal, he notes, marked a high point in modern social history, followed by a plateau until 1946. Modest advances were made in the Truman and Eisenhower years, and a big spurt took place in the first two years of the Johnson presidency. Now the curve is descending somewhat again. He foresees another spurt ahead, but fears that it will come "later than it should...
Alcoa's business has continued to spurt so far this year, which is no small accomplishment in view of the un certainty clouding such key aluminum users as the automobile and home-building industries. Part of the explanation is customer stockpiling as a precaution ary hedge against a possible aluminum strike this summer. The company has also benefited from the copper indus try's marathon strike, during which it has made headway in its efforts to substitute aluminum for copper in telephone cables. Although technological problems still have to be overcome before aluminum can compete with all other...