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What effect it will have on the economy is less sure. At best, it will ease inflationary pressures. But there is also a danger that the combined restraint of higher taxes and reduced spending will prove too powerful a brake, throttling expansion rather than merely controlling...
...political groups ranging from liberal Monarchists to the Communist Party . Non- violence remains its credo, but the threat of more audacious and aggressive action is always there. Some plant executives leaving the factory parking lot at day's end now prudently check to be sure that their brake-fluid lines have not been cut or their tires slashed. On May Day, the Workers' Commissions turned out such a huge crowd of marchers that the government nervously called full "red alert" and positioned police and riot squads all over Madrid...
Loss of Confidence. Adding to the rising unease is a slack in the four-year economic boom that, beginning in 1962, thrust Spain into the 20th century world of rapidly rising industrial wages new cars and washing machines, The lull has created unemployment and put a brake on wage increases. Above , it has cost the government the confidence of many businessmen who had always staunchly supported Franco. The government gives the impression of not knowing quite what to do about either the economy or the popular unrest, and this impression is strengthened by the fact that Franco seems to spend...
...glove compartment and sensing devices mounted inside each rear wheel. When one or both wheels stop rolling while the car is in motion, indicating a skid, the sensor flashes an instant message to the computer. Many drivers end in catastrophe after a skid because they freeze on the brake pedal instead of pumping it rapidly and repeatedly while steering their way out of the spin. The computer will do the proper pumping for them in the auto-linear system. With one impulse it takes control of the brakes away from the brake pedal; with another it applies its own braking...
...Budd Co. had its best first quarter since 1960, with profits of $2.8 million; Westinghouse Air Brake's earnings rose 10% to $3.2 million...