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...Erupting Volcano. Last week Erhard was deep in his newest battle against rising prices, brought on when the big Ruhr coal operators announced a sudden $1.20-$1.50-a-ton price rise only four days after the elections. To the coal operators' pleas that their prices were still the lowest in Europe, Erhard roared: "You have made a volcano erupt. The administration is disturbed, the government is wounded." To unionists seeking concomitant wage rises and benefits, Erhard insisted he would succeed in keeping prices down: "If you look into it, you will find that your real income is now higher...
...from Newport all full of himself, soon gave up any pretense of living up to his implied agreement to start withdrawing National Guard troops from Little Rock's Central High School. He desperately tried to whip up backers for his claim that Little Rock had been about to erupt into violence at the start of integrated classes. Example: he called in a Little Rock city official, displayed a schoolbook with a square section of pages cut out ("Just right for hiding a gun"), and a few water pistols ("The Negroes were gonna fill them with acid and shoot...
Sudden Outrage. Kashmir is one of the world's plague spots-like Algeria and Cyprus-which can be expected to erupt with violence, or at least violent language, just before a U.N. session opens. Last month Pakistani Foreign Minister Firoz Khan Noon charged that Russian military aircraft had been allowed to land in Indian Kashmir, and added, "I consider the whole of India to be a Russian air base." India's press countered this attack with the claim that the U.S. Air Force is carrying out a "feverish buildup" in the part of Kashmir held by Pakistan...
...shot finishes off. The not completely achieved is life." Beauty, as the world knows it, has long since ceased to interest him. "What is the beautiful?" he exclaims. "One must speak of problems in painting!" Such rumblings give the art world warning that the volcano is still alive, may erupt again before the world's astonished eyes. The most demanding commission of his career is now directly ahead of him-a huge mural for Paris' new headquarters for UNESCO. What its subject will be Picasso does not hint. But until the final revolver shot sounds, the old master...
...authority for managing the company to a third party who may not be nearly as familiar with the company's problems as you are." Once an agreement is signed, however, arbitration may come into its rightful role, interpreting the fine print, settling the petty grievances that might otherwise erupt into strikes...