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...SWITZERLAND. Price inflation remains a problem despite the country's three-year-old stabilization program. But Switzerland's economic growth rate, which slowed from 5.1% in 1964 to less than 3% last year, is expected to improve slightly in 1967, thanks in part to the elimination of restrictions on foreign investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Slowing Down | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...centers offer relatively small classes-Chicago, for example, has an average of twelve. Most cities provide counseling services by social workers and psychologists, prenatal and postnatal health advice. Washington's three-year-old Webster School goes so far as to provide special courses on "Values of Family Life," "Biological Aspects of Birth" and "Marriage and Its Economic Advantages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: Maturity for Unwed Mothers | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...telephones and pianos are always white, the butler is always comic, and her escort perennially in top hat and tails, ready for a twirl. Love is the only problem she knows, and that is a somewhat half-witted affair, its contretemps based on misunderstandings that a TV-trained three-year-old could settle in seconds. The battle of the sexes is either mock or bittersweet; one lyric says it all: "We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes/But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes." All this is sexy only by insinuendo-and thus stimulates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Ginger Peachy | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...Bulgarian Party Congress last week, Zhivkov proudly detailed "an all-round upsurge" in the nation's economy - the product of a quiet three-year-old reform experiment that has placed 60% of Bulgaria's industry on a profit-incentive basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bulgaria: Big Beat in the Balkans | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

Wheel of Death. Once inside the school, Smith brandished his pistol. No one paid any attention so he fired one shot into a mirror and ordered everyone there-five women, a three-year-old girl and a baby-into a back room. One woman shouted, "There'll be 40 people here in a few minutes." Smith replied: "I'm sorry, but I didn't bring enough ammunition for them." He found to his dismay that the sandwich bags were too small to pull over a person's head, but he still had his knives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Slaughter in the College of Beauty | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

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