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...affect Britain's relations with 724 million Commonwealth citizens. Britons who want to remember the sails of Drake and Raleigh, and the balance sheets that once followed the flag around the world, are being asked to turn their backs on what little remains of the Empire and to abandon (or so many believe) yesterday's wide horizons for a nearby, still suspect coast. And yet, to an extent unforeseeable only a few years ago, the decision to join Europe's Common Market may also be a new adventure for Britain and restore British prestige and power...
...budget : "The safe and sound policy would be for the Government to abandon its career of fiscal brinkmanship, and in times like these control expenditures within limits that allow for significant annual reductions in the national debt. Then, when sudden economic declines happen, the loss in revenues will not cause severe deficits...
Howells argued eloquently and wisely that novelists must abandon fairy-tale heroics and write of the commonplace. But he could not see what James knew instinctively-that there was another side to reality, that life "often risks combinations and effects that make one rub one's eyes." Life as portrayed by Howells risked no such effects, and his novels unrolled with a tameness that even admiring contemporaries could not explain away. Henry Adams, writing a delicately equivocal notice of an early Howells novel (one of the pleasures of a collection of criticism is seeing eminent men of the past...
...skin and squared-off rear that give its lines a handsome simplicity. Plymouth will switch to a Thunderbird-like roof, will also square off its 1962 rear end-irreverently known in Detroit as the "duck butt." The Valiant, adding a convertible to its line, will grow 2 in. and abandon the European styling it has worn for the past three years in favor of more rectangular lines. In a confusing exchange of identities, this year's Dart will grow 6 in. (to an overall length of 208 in.) and be rechristened the Dodge, while what is now called...
Europe's Common Market is doing so well that it is now worrying outsiders, both friendly and otherwise. Nikita Khrushchev has been huffing and puffing against it, and Commonwealth nations have been warning Britain not to abandon them in her eagerness to join (see THE WORLD). The Latin American nations recently sent a delegation to Brussels to protest against a Common Market ruling that will impose a 16% duty on Latin American coffee but admit coffee from France's former African colonies duty-free...