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...June and July, the cost of living made its steepest two-month climb in eleven years. Going up by one-half of 1% each month, the consumer price index reached 121.5 (using the figure of 100 for the base period 1957-59). On that scale, the average family now pays $12.15 for the same items that cost...
...ones. Most drivers are tested only once in a lifetime, under ideal conditions at low speeds. On the highway-where they have to make 50 decisions per mile-they would flunk most elementary tests. Thirty states do not require periodic auto inspection, and those states tend to have the steepest death rates (the highest fatality rate is in California, the lowest in Connecticut...
...reality. Politicians and Ph.D.'s wrangled earnestly over varying techniques to fight the fire, but few could disregard the smoke signals. After seven years of immobility, the wholesale price index has spurted 4.1% in the past year, last month alone rose seven-tenths of 1 %, the steepest February increase since the precipitate price escalation early in the Korean War. Industrial production was up 9% over the preceding February; personal incomes grew 8% to a record annual rate of $556 billion...
Four-year-olds are loathsome on the slopes. Down the steepest, iciest trails they schuss, knees straight, skis two feet apart-and they never seem to fall down. (How can they, with a center of gravity only inches from the snow?) Nonetheless, adult snow bunnies, floundering out of their sitzmarks on the Abe Ali slopes of the Zagros Mountains, 42 miles from Teheran, cast a friendly eye on one four-year-old skiing in the brilliant sunshine. After all, he was the son of the Shah of Iran, Crown Prince Reza...
...Germany's farmers are high-cost operators. They still mostly use horse-drawn power and till tiny, tired plots that have been handed down and subdivided over the generations. Bonn's farm-strong Christian Democratic Party insists on protecting them with some of the world's steepest subsidies and tariffs. France, which has half of the Common Market's arable land and its largest and most efficient farms, wants to eliminate all of the Market's internal barriers to agricultural trade so that France can increase farm exports and reduce its own heavily subsidized farm...