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Word: merlis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...kind of "depression-maybe" talk that was last heard at the low point of the 1958 recession. Said Black: "I don't know anybody who is smart enough to say what's going on." Consumers, too, have their doubts about the pace of the economy, and some mer chants report a buyers' tendency to put off deferable "big-ticket" purchases- furniture, appliances, etc. The University of Michigan's Survey Research Center this week reported "a marked decline in con sumer optimism" in the past two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Next Six Months | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

John M. Chang, 60, whose Korean name is Chang Myun, is Korea's leading Catholic layman and the most articulate spokesman for the opposition Democratic Party. Broad-shouldered and sil ver-haired, he looks like the dean of a divinity school, is actually a for mer Seoul high school principal who studied law at New York's Manhattan College (1925). Of his seven children, six are U.S. -educated, two are studying for the priesthood. Once Rhee's Prime Minister and trusted lieutenant, Chang rebelled in 1950 when Rhee proposed to alter the constitution to make himself independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TWO NO. 2's | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

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