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...lavish dinner for two and many bottles of champagne. Hooked, he sticks around and pays and pays as the girl, already tanked up, orders more champagne, a purseful of cigarettes and a corsage. When he takes her home, she passes out in the foyer. He lugs his hefty pickup up and down stairs and in and out of an antique glass-walled elevator in a frantic attempt to find her apartment so he can unload her. When he finally gets rid of her and back on the street, he is missing a shoe, goes hippety-hoppety down the avenue...
...head feels ripe, it triggers a clutch, which in turn sends a miniature guillotine slashing through the lettuce stalk. In recent tests, the machine lopped off some 4,500 heads an hour -five times more than the nimblest human headsman. Davis engineers are already at work building a pickup machine to follow the cutter...
...pumping once more in unison. Production, profits and purchasing power are running at records. The reports from autos, steel and retail sales are bullish. On Wall Street the stock market has come back to within 15 points of its all-time 1961 high of 734.91. The business pickup has been greeted by every name, from the grudging "seasonal upswing" to the barely restrained "boomlet" now used in an advertisement by staid Standard & Poor's. The economy's performance has not yet earned the title of boom-and may never-but no one is willing to minimize...
...been fooled once, many of them take refuge in the safety of "cautious optimism"-but the accent is on optimism. William Allan Patterson. 63, the breezy former banker who heads United Air Lines, feels "a great weight lifting from my shoulders" as a result of the economy's pickup. Metropolitan Life Insurance President Gilbert Fitzhugh, 53, who puts in an 80-hour week investing the insurance savings of 44 million Americans and Canadians, thinks that nowadays "individual businessmen are more optimistic than the economists." John F. Gordon, 63, an Annapolis-trained engineer who climbed the corporate stairs...
What will become of them? The business pickup in 1963's first four months created 700,000 new jobs, but 674,000 new workers-not to mention those already unemployed-started looking for jobs. Even the steel mills are hiring only high school graduates, and Government programs for training the unschooled have hardly made a dent. "You just cannot make a shoe clerk out of an unschooled machine shop employee, no matter how hard you try," says Houston Economist Sven Larsen. To many, the only answer lies in broadened vocational training for those of limited talents and expansion...