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...Angeles County (pop. 7,020,000) and such neighboring cities as Long Beach and San Bernardino. Though Los Angeles proper ranks third in population among U.S. cities (after New York and Chicago), Greater Los Angeles is already the second-most-populous metropolis in the U.S., is almost sure to surpass New York by 1975. Last week alone, some 5,000 people moved into the area. By 1990, such growth will make the city the hub of an uninterrupted urbanized stretch of almost 19 million inhabitants occupying the 175-mile-long, coastal area that runs from Santa Barbara in the north...
Childproof. All this is rapidly changing the record business. The record companies theorize that once a motorist accumulates a stack of cartridges for his car, he will want to play them in his living room as well. Thus, the companies estimate that stereo cartridges will surpass today's sales of records within a few years. RCA Victor has so far sold 1,500,000 cartridges, and Columbia, Mercury, Decca and Capitol have recently brought out their eight-track-cartridge lines...
Once upon a time, Nikita Khrushchev was wont to boast that the Soviet economy would surpass that of the U.S. by 1970. His successors have been far more realistic. A recent Kremlin report suggests that instead of being on the verge of world championship, the Soviet Union's populace barely managed to surpass Bulgaria in 1963 in per-capita purchasing power. In fact, by Moscow's own admission, four Comecon countries -East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland-enjoyed higher standards of living than Russia itself three years...
...Singer Co. heard President Donald P. Kircher predict that on the basis of first-quarter sales of $250 million, up 10%, Singer this year for the first time is likely to join the corporate elite of 55 firms whose sales surpass $1 billion annually...
...result, over the last decade, the price of farm land has climbed 60% faster than farm income, thus confounding the economic axiom that the value of land depends on its profit potential. Farm prosperity-profits reached a 13-year high in 1965, and this year will surpass $15 billion-and the possibility of growing export crops under the Administration's "food for freedom" program also spur expansion...