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...Britain's critical trade deficit, he abruptly decreed an extraordinary 15% tax on imports, doubling Britain's tariffs overnight (see WORLD BUSINESS). Though Whitehall insisted that the tax was only a stop-gap measure, Britain's trading partners throughout the world protested that it was a backward-looking move that might jeopardize years of patient progress toward lower tariffs. Wilson's rebuttal was contained in his next major policy pronouncement, a detailed White Paper emphasizing that the solution to Britain's economic ills does not lie in "oldfashioned, restrictionist ideas," as he puts...
...Living. Murphy fell into art backward. After a stint in U.S. Army aviation during World War I, he tried studying landscape architecture at Harvard-and found the required drawing course a dreadful bore. So he and his wife Sara sailed to the expatriate paradise of Europe. There, in the words of Archibald MacLeish, the Murphys became "masters in the art of living." Since the wine and the wit were always right, Stravinsky came to dinner, Léger showed them Paris night life, and Diaghilev invited them to his ballet...
...design concept that has been tried experimentally but never used in an operational airplane. When the wings are fully extended, they have hardly any sweepback, and the airplane looks oddly oldfashioned. In this condition it will fly with old-fashioned slowness. Then, as speed increases, the wings are swept backward, reducing lift and drag, and permitting speed to increase still more...
Permanent Revolution. People's Daily warned last spring that China's enemies were pinning their hopes on the "deterioration of the younger generation," and that concern for "seniority" in promoting officials was "backward, clannish, feudal thinking." When the Communist Youth League met a few weeks later, its first secretary, Hu Yao-pang, 51, was reelected, but 144 of its 178 committee members were replaced...
...That backward and poverty-stricken bottom half of the Italian boot, Il Mezzogiorno, was long considered a good place to be from and a hard place to get to. Economically and physically isolated, a separate and underdeveloped land within a developed nation, the south stood in harsh contrast to Italy's industrialized north. Now all the old ideas about the south may have to be revised. Last week, with flying banners and ecclesiastical pomp, the Italians opened the last stretch of the 468-mile Milan-to-Salerno Autostrada del Sole, the first modern highway link between north and south...