Six Years Of American Boom Underlines Growth Trends
A reflective look at six years of rapid American growth highlights heavy spending on private buildings and highways, rising car and refrigerator production, growing farm machinery and construction spends, expanding TV and entertainment, and a surge in computers. The piece frames the boom as a P-shaped portrait shaped by urban shift and industrial progress.
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Superboom
U.S
Internal Revenue Service
Novelist May Have Made A Million Dollar Error
New York writer Jacqueline Susann, a poor speller, overestimates her first novel Valley of the Dolls earnings. She says it will gross at least $2 million, with 350,000 hardbacks sold and 12 million paperbacks planned for 1968. Her publicity, husband Irving Mansfield, and TV exposure fueled the bestseller run, though critics dismiss her style as simple. Susann anticipates a second novel The Love Machine by spring and plans a third.
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Jacqueline Susann
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Hollywood
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Peyton Place
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Southwestern Life Insurance hits 34 billion in force
Dallas based Southwestern Life Insurance Co reports 34 billion dollars of life insurance in force, ranking it in the top 2 percent nationwide. The firm reached 3 billion three years ago and first hit 1 billion in 1953.
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Southwestern Life Insurance Co
Freberg Banned Again As His Satire Angers Stations
AP report notes comedian Stan Freberg celebrates another ban over his Capitol release Freberg Underground featuring Reagan satire. Stations say the piece is too sensitive for California gubernatorial coverage and politics. The piece includes a mocked Reagan portrayal and Fiorello LaGuardia style zingers amid campaign context.
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Incumbents Lose In House Senate Polls
Primary losses surge in Congress as veteran leaders Robertson and Smith fall to younger challengers. Age and redistricting factor into several upsets, with notable defeats of Martin, Bass, Russell and others. About 36 incumbents retire or lose, creating many open seats in the new Congress.
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Howard W. Smith
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Sense Rules
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Joseph W. Martin Jr
Ross Bass
Tennessee
Donald S. Rustsell
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Texas
Ray Roberts
Hospital To Close In Mitchell County Texas
COLORADO CITY Texas Hospital to close its doors as Medicare shifts revenue. Root Memorial Hospital a 30 bed facility faces declining payments with half its patients on Medicare and costs for modernization. Mitchell County’s other hospital is 9 miles away in Lorraine.
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Mitchell County
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Beaumont Welcomes First Bishop Vincent Harris
The Most Rev. Vincent M. Harris, first bishop of the new Beaumont Diocese, assumed office today in Beaumont after consecration this week at St. Vincent de Paul Church. Bishop Harris, a former Galveston-Houston diocese chancellor, was consecrated by Bishop John L. Markovosky, apostolic administrator.
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Fioulton
Vincent M. Harris
Beaumont
Harris
St. Vincent de Paul Church
John L. Markovosky
Galveston- Houston
LA Food Council Plans Cost Cut With Preventive Care
LA Food Employers Council and Retail Clerks Union Local 770 launch a pilot program to reduce medical costs by $5 per member for diagnostic tests and predictive medicine. The plan funds a predictive medicine clinic, aiming to cut absenteeism and boost on‑the‑job performance with preventive care and education.
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LA Food Council
Los Angeles
Lass Food
Retail Clerks Union Local 770
Hollywood Boulevard
Emmanuel Cheraskin
Robert K. Fox
Fine Food Employers Council
Prgram Wis
Joseph T. DeSilva
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