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Theatrics of Neatness. Who else has a switch on his terrace that, at the flick of a whim, causes a fountain to spurt 120 feet into the air from the center of a private lake? Johnson's house is a monument to the theatrics of neatness: only a bachelor could sustain such stark elegance at this pitch of obsession-one three-year-old child could reduce it all to chaos in ten minutes. It is perhaps the expression of a dilettante-in the classic sense of the word, a lover of the fine arts. It does need money...
...politics, and they have been goddamned aggressive." If it turns out to be a winning game, Nixon will have overcome severe odds. Only once since 1934 has the President's party gained Senate seats in an off-year election. That was in 1962, when Democrats benefited from a spurt of national unity after the Cuban missile crisis and added four seats to their existing majority during the presidency of John Kennedy...
...most apparent in Europe. Five new hotels will open in London this year; another 30 are due to transform the city's skyline by 1975. Amsterdam is adding 50% to its hotel capacity. In France, where 60% of the hotel space was built before 1914, hotelmen foresee a spurt of construction in Paris and along the Cote d'Azur. The Soviet Union opened a new hotel for foreign tourists this spring at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, will open a second in Leningrad this summer, and is putting up three more in Moscow. In Hong Kong, about...
...feeling that the nation has lost its direction-economically, socially and in foreign policy-and that the Nixon Administration is providing no reasoned leadership to get it back on course. The investment community's loss of confidence in Nixon, whose election initially set off a spurt in stock prices, is remarkable. Says David Basevitz, a Midwest Stock Exchange executive: "The public is bearish on the country...
...rate of only 2%. They have also held down industrial investment and allowed unemployment to rise to 2.7%, which is high by British standards. Those measures reduced domestic demand, thus forcing manufacturers to export more. The basic consumer demand remains; as taxes and interest rates move lower, it could spurt again...