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Saving Less. Fully half of the rise in total retail sales is due to record buying of cars. This year more than 10.1 million U.S. and foreign cars will be sold, up 16% from strike-stalled 1970. Ford and Chrysler officers predict that next year will be equally strong...
...place tremendous demands on their friends. The water signs are sensitive, emotional, idealistic; and since Capricorn is practical and hard-nosed, he looks for more visionary people." Among Gould's "hunches" for 1972: Spiro Agnew will be replaced by another water man. He names no names-except to predict that Piscean Pat Nixon will have a hand in the selection. John Connolly, incidentally, is a Pisces...
...Your otherwise excellent roundup on the Supreme Court nominations ignored the historic fact that no one can predict the ideological behavior of a Justice. Few of them have followed the party line of the nominating Administration, and those that have, have tended to lack influence in the court...
...also reflects the belief of many economists that it was big business and big labor-which have somehow grown powerful enough to resist normal market forces even in a recession-that created the need for controls. By reining in tightly on a relatively few large units, these economists predict, the Government should be able to restrain the rest of the economy as well. There is some doubt, though, that the 3,000 IRS agents detailed to investigate violations of Phase II rules will be anywhere near enough to do the job effectively...
...society's ritual fantasies. Parker Brothers' Monopoly, for example, was introduced in 1935 as a Depression daydream of striking it rich with hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place. The coming election year has prompted several pick-the-President exercises (TIME, Nov. 8). It is difficult to predict what sociologists, or the Italian-American Civil Rights League, may make of a game called The Godfather -"for All the Families...