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Results so far are inconclusive, but opportunities for flight will hardly be eased by a new construction program that began at the Wall fortnight ago. As a first stage, East German workers began tearing down the 95-mile barrier -only to replace it eventually with a better and more escape-proof model...
Having originally hoped to promulgate the new rule last week, the FCC at the last minute delayed it for perhaps another fortnight. And even when the regulation is issued, the networks will be given several years to appeal and adapt. But as one network vice president said last week, "Just talking about it could take dollars off our stock...
...Just Luck. Machine tools now account for 90% of the company's earnings, but the most promising subsidiary is an engineering design and construction firm, Constructors John Brown. "C.J.B.," as its executives call it, is building the Algerian pipeline and the Russian plant, a fortnight ago won an order to put up an Imperial Chemical Industries complex in Yorkshire...
Britons of both major parties have been disturbed by the current rowdiness and inanity. Last November, on the occasion of his maiden speech as Prime Minister, Harold Wilson was howled down by offended Tories. A fortnight ago, both Wilson and Opposition Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home could scarcely speak above the din. Members on both sides bawl "Shut up!" and "Withdraw!" at each other. Documents are waved, fists shaken, and at times several members are on their feet simultaneously, shouting repetitious points of order whose only purpose seems obstruction...
...exploding technology. And for the first time, the Soviet consumer began to have enough money, and enough of shoddily made goods, to refuse to buy what failed to please him-and to want more of everything from hand cream and weekly hairdos to haute couture. As Izvestia unabashedly admitted fortnight ago: "The urge to have one's own car is as compelling as technical progress itself." This was a kind of consumer pressure that the Kremlin planners had never before encountered...