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Still Compassionate. With the opening steel skirmish won, Wilson turned coolly to the next item on his agenda, an emergency "autumn budget" designed to ease Britain's painful $2 billion balance-of-payments deficit until the regular budget is drawn up in April. At the same time, Wilson saw a chance to nail down votes for a probable spring election by passing some promised social-welfare measures...
...other two stories are a chore to read. In "In the Autumn the Boy" Gail Borden develops a cumbersome word-joining technique to describe in nine pages what would have been vivider in one: "Crippled vision blurs, shuffles sideways, sees what seems caught form crushed within heathaze...
...autumn-foliaged town of Tyngsboro, Mass., the U.S. space program last week got a handsome present. It is the world's most sensitive radio antenna, a 120-ft. aluminum dish named Haystack for the New England hill on which it rests. Balanced like spokes on a bicycle wheel, protected from the weather by a golf-ball-looking dome that is the world's largest metal-frame radome, Haystack is now tuned and ready. Its tasks will range from radar tracking of a satellite 20,000 miles in space to holding a two-way radio conversation with a speeding...
Three large yellow and white vans from Washington pulled up at the 85th Street entrance of a Fifth Avenue apartment, and unloaded the toys, clothes and furniture of Jacqueline Kennedy, 35, Caroline, 6, and John Jr., 3. Meanwhile Jackie, staying at the nearby Carlyle Hotel, went through the autumn whirligig of a Manhattan mother, supervising the redecoration of her 15-room duplex, which will be ready in a month or so, enrolling Caroline at the 91st Street Academy of the Sacred Heart, taking John for a ride on the Central Park carrousel. And then one day, she was out with...
...years, and it was a faultless performance. When it was all over, Ted Shawn's thoughts turned characteristically to the future. "Things go in cycles," he said, "like the seasons of the year. I feel this present renaissance of the dance is just about early summer. Before autumn and decadence set in, it may be another 200 years...