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...Business. The issues that divide the campaigners are remarkably few. Though Labor proposes the extension of nationalization in the steel industry and a state takeover of urban building land, road transport and water supplies, the substance of both major party manifestos agrees on the bread-and-butter issues that decide British elections. Both are for modernization, a 4% growth rate, 400,000 new housing starts a year, new antimonopoly legislation, and an overhaul of taxation and social security systems. The difference is one of philosophy and emphasis, with Labor predictably arguing for a stronger state hand in things, the Tories...
...predominantly agricultural economy. As a result, Bulgarians have moved off the farms (where 70% of the 8,000,000 population lived just 20 years ago v. 50% today) and into a boomlet of industrialization. To the $838.3 million worth of vegetables, shiny apples, bursting grapes, jams, jellies, butter and milk that Bulgaria exported in 1963 was added a growing stream of batteries, machine tools, pumps, electric hoists, pharmaceuticals and steel products. One of Bulgaria's biggest hard-currency earners is the booming Black Sea resort area at Varna known as "Golden Sands," where Bulgars and bikini-clad outlanders this...
True, when a worker is chased he may be honestly frightened, but soon the scares of the day become routine and serve as exciting tales for the evening while hungry freedom workers devour plates of butter beans and corn in the "living room" of the freedom house. Cleveland Sellers, SNCC staff workers, jokes with a vounteer, "What you need is someone to ride shotgun...
True, when a worker is chased he may be honestly frightened, but soon the scares of the day become routine and serve as exciting tales for the evening while hungry freedom workers devour plates of butter beans and corn in the "living room" of the freedom house. Cleveland Sellers, SNCC staff workers, jokes with a vounteer, "What you need is someone to ride shotgun...
...they can control Cuba. No one has yet proved that they can run it. Rationing and shortages have worsened to the point where an automobile tire now goes for $130 on the black market, the weekly coffee ration is down to 1½ oz. per person, and the monthly butter ration is ⅛ lb. per person. At Havana's Tropicana nightclub, the chorus is still leggy and kicking, but the food is bad and few Cubans can even afford the tips. A Coca-Cola? Sure, says the obliging bartender at the Habana Libre Hotel. The bottle is certainly...