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...this, according to Administration economists, will help boost gross national product to $660 billion, a $37.7 billion gain. Personal income is expected to rise by $28.6 billion to $520 billion, and corporate profits by $3.9 billion to $61 billion-that is, if the economy steams ahead past mid-1965, the point at which the extra fuel provided by last year's tax cut will be all but spent...
...Shrinking Celebrity. Three times in the past year, TV's Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, 47, has slipped into South Viet Nam, visited some 8,000 U.S. servicemen stationed in remote areas, sometimes with Viet Cong shells bursting near by, and issued no publicity about it to boost his ratings. He jotted down the names of thousands of servicemen whose relations he called up for a personal report when he got back. Burr hobbled through his most recent Jeep-and-helicopter round last month despite a painfully pinched leg nerve, and though he rarely gabs about Perry Mason (preferring...
Utah Democrat Calvin L Rampton is about as popular a new Governor as a state ever had, trusted and respected by business, admired by labor. But Rampton is determined to push through a massive bonding program for new state construction, boost both state income and corporate-franchise tax rates, and repeal the state right-to-work law over the opposition of the powerful Mormon Church. Should he succeed in his program to "get Utah moving," Cal Rampton certainly stands to lose some friends...
...vital in sustaining prosperity. Along with the consumer, they created a nonvicious circle: spending created more production, production created wealth, wealth created more spending. Of the three forces, the consumer did just a little more than most people had expected of him and thus gave the economy a bigger boost than it otherwise would have enjoyed...
...billion tax cut out of their committees, and Congress quickly passed it. Though Johnson's techniques of persuasion and manipulation have inevitably changed somewhat in the transition from legislative to executive branch, they have lost none of their potency. After Congress killed a proposed $545 million pay boost for Government employees, he breathed life back into the measure with a few well-placed phone calls and an earnest talk with congressional leaders. He pointed out that Economist Walter Heller had gone...