Newsweek magazine - July 30, 1962 with KEY TO THE ECONOMY - The Mighty U.S. CONSUMER on the cover. Contents in this issue include:
*** THE COVER: "Will business push its expansion? Or is a recession
in the offing? If so, should there be a tax cut? While the experts
debate, the person who holds the key to all these weighty questions
goes calmly about his - or her - daily business. This is the mighty
U.S. consumer, whose spending plans can spell boom or bust."
*** THE 'WON'T-DO' CONGRESS: "The undindest cut of all for the President, as medicare is defeated by a whisker."
*** FOREIGN LOBBYISTS - HIDDEN PRESSURES: "How do the 400-odd foreigh
agents registered in the U.S. operate? Ward S. Just in Washington and
a team of reporters in New York spent weeks digging out the substance
of the lobbyists' shadowy activities."
*** NOT ANTI-AMERICAN, JUST INDIFFERENT: "That's the mood of the New
Europe, and it raises serious questions about the future relationship
between the U.S. and its staunchest allies."
*** AU REVOIR AT SIDI: "The French Foreign Legion bids a sad farewell
to the Algerian scene ot its birth, but in fiction and fact the legend
lives on."
*** MISSLE vs. MISSILE: "In a week when KHRUSHCHEV boasts his rockets
can hit a fly in space, the U.S. Nike-Zeus scores its first success.
But, despite the breakthrough, nuclear offense is still far ahead of
defense."
*** HANDICAPPING THE HANDICAPPERS: "How do the top newspaper
horse-racing handicappers make out at the track? As one puts it: "The
name of the game is losers."