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...million for these advantages, its offer came at a bad time for British morale. Their auto industry's lucrative export business to the U.S. has been sharply cut by U.S. compacts. British Motors was forced to put 70,000 on short work weeks; Standard-Triumph had to dismiss 1,700 of its 8,000 workers; British Ford slashed overtime for 30,000. Pleas to the government to spur domestic sales by easing tight credit restrictions have been turned down by Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, who ruled that any encouragement of domestic sales would reduce the incentives...
Although there was a general feeling that a 1923 Faculty recommendation limiting the Freshman class to 1000 students was now out-dated, the Faculty was reluctant simply to dismiss the issue by rescinding the recommendation...
...Inevitably, the dictatorship is losing some popular support. At the peak, Castro had 90% of Cuba's people with him; the figure today is estimated at around 50%. One top underground leader told friends he no longer worried that servants would betray him. Cubans who used to dismiss the Communism charges as right-wing American propaganda are beginning to wake up. A shudder of fear swept Havana last week when a rumor got around that the government was planning to "nationalize" children along Communist lines...
...audiences refuse to let him go home. Having astounded Carnegie Hall with an all-Beethoven program in making his Manhattan debut (TIME, Oct. 31), Russia's great pianist returned last week to Carnegie to practice his extraordinary technique on works of other composers. The best way to dismiss his audiences, he discovered, was by quietly closing the keyboard of his concert grand...
Sometimes a reported improvement is what the doctors call "subjective," meaning that the patient feels better, says he has less pain, eats better and often resumes normal activities after having been bedridden. Cancer scientists dismiss all such effects as resulting from the power of suggestion...