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Economic torpor this year has gripped not only Britain but also much of continental Europe. Braked by West Germany's first major postwar recession and by sluggish business in France, the Common Market is headed for the slowest expansion in its ten-year history. In its third quarterly report, the Brussels-based EEC Commission has just concluded that the total output of goods and services in the Six will rise only 2½% in 1967, after discounting inflation...
...tension is still there. Bacon still wants to rule with an iron hand and still thinks his autocratic personal style necessary to the district's well-being. Asked about one of the trustee's criticism that the ten-year program might cost more than twice Bacon's estimate and might not get his promised federal support, the superintendent snapped, "What the hell does he think it will cost? He ought to say or keep quiet--this is just nitpicking. With the kind of help we've been getting from him we may have trouble getting from him the federal money...
...there was an unsolved matter of $ 1,000,000 and who it belonged to. Semenenko was out of touch on a yacht cruising the Mediterranean, but from Boston came word that he had agreed to turn over to the bank a $1,000,000 fee due him over a ten-year period for "special services" to Moviemaker Jack L. Warner. One such service: arranging the sale last year of Warner's stock in Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. to Seven Arts Productions Ltd., which Semenenko made possible with a $19.5 million loan to Seven Arts from a syndicate of First...
...many Americans as most immoderate. One such scheme is A. Philip Randolph's "Freedom Budget," originally proposed two years ago. It would wipe out the ghettos, provide a guaranteed annual income, increase spending on education, housing, vocational training and health services. The price tag: $185 billion over a ten-year period...
After that, they seem to age 15 years in the ten-year interval between U.S. censuses. Chief Actuary Robert J. Myers of the Social Security Administration has analyzed the 1960 census report of 10,000 self-proclaimed centenarians in the U.S. and concludes that the true number was no more than...