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...view that the doors of the Common Market should be opened to Britain and the other six members of the Euro pean Free Trade Association. De Gaulle was unmoved, holding to his position that Britain under Prime Minister Har old Wilson has excluded itself by remaining linked to the Commonwealth and the U.S. Sighed Kiesinger later to newsmen: "Wilson will not have an easy time when he comes here...
Until last year, any discussion of the pill, even with married students, would have been against Massachusetts law. But last March the Commonwealth passed a law permitting doctors to prescribe them to married women...
Since Harvard operates under a special charter granted before standard incorporation procedures were developed, the University must go back to the legislature for changes. The legislature has relinquished most of its control. The five year rule is the last vestige of the Commonwealth's official influence in Harvard affairs...
...Leyland Motor Corp., the Commonwealth's largest producer of heavy trucks, last week made an apparently successful $70-million bid to buy the Rover Co., whose Land Rover sales have been hit by Japanese competition. With 70,000 employees and $840-million-a-year revenue from 10% of the passenger-car and 25% of the commercial-vehicle markets, Leyland-Rover would become Britain's No. 3 automak er, after British Motor Corp. and Ford. Though the marriage seems to be one of necessity. Leyland Chairman Sir William Black says that Rover has been "a glint...
...Robert Preston, this musical is blessed; in its book and score, it is blubber. The show is a two-character, two-gun salute to the enduring joys and passing frustrations of 50 years of married life. "A marriage is neither an ecstasy nor a slavery; it is a commonwealth," said G. K. Chesterton; in I Do! I Do!, marriage is a half-century diet of cotton candy...