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Even greater than their disenchantment with Krag personally was the irritation of Danish voters with his economic policies. Faced with worsening inflation, Krag tried last December to cancel a mandatory cost-of-living pay hike for Danish workers, but when some of his extreme leftist partners deserted him in a test vote on the issue in the Folketing, he called for new elections. During the campaign, the anti-Socialist opposition shrewdly played on rising Danish concern over increased unemployment (which is at 2.7%, still low by Western standards), a drop in Danish exports, the higher bill for welfare programs...
...give an account of the U.S. Government's purchasing $28.5 million worth of electrical equipment produced in Germany for the Tennessee Valley Authority. How many schoolteachers will have to cancel their contemplated trip to Europe to make up for the effect of this purchase on our balance of payments...
Senator Eugene T. McCarthy (D-Minn.) was unexpectedly forced to cancel his scheduled appearance and remain in Washington for an emergency meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Visually, Director-Writer Oldfich Lipsky has made his film almost as zany as the plot; when Lemonade Joe enters Death Valley, he jumps down a vast canyon-only to enjoy a landing as soft as his drink. In a shootout, bullets meet in mid-air and cancel each other. A henchman pulls rabbits and bouquets from his holster. Street signs are all in English, but the dialogue is laconically drawled in jawbreaking Czech. "Hands up" is the kind of phrase that can only gain in translation-particularly when the translation is "Ruky hore...
...Robert Michel (R-III.) denounced the letter and called it the work of a conspiracy, Green said. "He charged that we were planning a walk-out at the President's annual address to the Washington interns--which was false." Rumors of a walk-out led Johnson to cancel his address...