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...systematically eliminated rivals by giving them thankless tasks or sacking them, the Tories have a number of highly plausible successors. Currently in the lead (Daily Express odds: 4-7) is Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling, who is youthful (46) and ready to take credit for a predicted economic spurt this summer. He is also happily married, a particularly useful qualification right now. Next are Deputy Prime Minister "Rab" Butler (2-1), who has all the necessary experience, but at 60 may have been around too long; and Lord Hailsham, bellicose, blimpish Science Minister, 55, whose hopes faded rapidly when...
...Class was selected from the largest number of applications in the University's history and lived in a yard which was beginning extensive renovations of its dormitories. The dorm improvements were only the beginning of what was to start an unprecedented spurt in both building and academic changes...
...paper to read on the Metro. Since the war the provincial press has boomed. And such party-lining metropolitan papers as the Communist L'Humanite, and La Nation, organ of Charles de Gaulle's U.N.R. Party, have become bores. Most damaging of all has been the spurt in radio and television news coverage. In the last decade the number of French television sets has grown 60-fold...
Mendoza bought a small building-materials company in 1930, soon after the oil boom burst over the country. As the new riches sparked a spurt of building. Mendoza's company grew to dominate the construction-products market. An enlightened businessman. Mendoza realized that what was good for Venezuela was also good for him. In a brief stint as Minister of Development during World War II, he helped enact the laws that formed the basis for the precedent-shattering 50-50 formula that guaranteed Venezuela at least half the profits of the oil companies doing business in the country...
...baby boom has long been expected to provide expanding markets in the '60s, since growing numbers of young people stimulate the need for new schools and recreational facilities, and should touch off a burst of homebuilding and durable-goods sales when the young marry. Yet without a sudden spurt of economic growth or a determined effort to upgrade the skills of its youth, the U.S. may well find that when the new wave of young people begin to reach working age in huge numbers in 1965, many of them will be lining up for unemployment allotments instead of providing...