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Taipei has another serious problem from the rapid urbanization it has undergone. Few people own private cars, but all companies provide executives with chauttered vehicles and Taipei has the largest number of taxis per capita in the world. The finer points of urban motoring are lost on this horde of new drivers. Traffic is a series of right-hand turns from the left-hand land, and left-hand turns in the face of a charging wall of motorcycles. Massive traffic jams are a new, common problem...
Almost every American could count some gains for the year. Per capita personal income from such sources as wages, dividends, interest and rent rose from $3,620 to $3,821 at last count. Investors profited from the stock market's climb to new peaks; the Dow Jones industrial average, which started the year at 889, finally cracked the 1000 barrier and closed at 1020 (see box, page 52). The prices that farmers collected for their goods increased by about 15%, bringing delight in the farmhouse while raising howls in the supermarkets and complicating the Government's continuing crusade...
...dint of hard work and unromantic planning, Spain is doggedly building itself into an industrial power. The gross national product has grown an average 6.1% annually since 1964, and at $32.2 billion is 13th in the non-Communist world, just behind Sweden and ahead of The Netherlands. Per capita income has surpassed $1,000 per year, up from $317 in 1960; that is still well behind the Common Market countries but light-years ahead of a prewar standard of living that compared to Bulgaria and Portugal. Spain is the world's fourth largest shipbuilder, ranks 13th in steel production...
...SOUTH is in economic overdrive, powered by new residents and industries. South Carolina textile mills have added 3,100 workers this year and increased the average work week to 41.8 hours. Mississippi, though still the only state with per capita income below $3,000, is increasing total personal income by more than 11% per year. The tourist and construction surge in Florida, sparked largely by the Walt Disney World amusement park, has sent an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta to the Disney movie Mary Poppins to find a suitable description: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
Hernández has promised to take steps to improve the islanders' living conditions. Per capita income has risen from $121 in 1940 to $1,600 in 1971, higher than that of any Spanish-speaking nation in the Americas, but chronically high rates of inflation and unemployment (now at 12%) still plague the island-a fact Hernández pointed out over and over during his campaign. If he cannot improve upon Ferré's fiscal record, he may well find himself out of office four years from...