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...public at large, Britons have long been notably calm and patient about strikes. Yet there was some grumbling fortnight ago. when the railwaymen brought trains throughout the country to a dead halt and millions of commuters skipped work rather than try their luck on the highways. Slowly but surely, disenchantment with the unions is growing. In a 1954 Gallup poll, only 12% of the British public considered unions bad-by 1959 the figure had nearly doubled to 23%; Says ..George Woodcock, one of the leaders of the Trades Union Congress: "We have lost the general sympathy that the public usually...
...Fortnight ago, Kerr climbed into the seat of a snorting bulldozer and broke ground near Muskogee, Okla.. for a $5,000,000 harbor that will be built to handle future traffic on the broad stream that now dawdles by. Declared Kerr: "I can see an area developing which can take its place in the sun of modern America, developing an economy that will be the finest the people in this valley have ever known." As Kerr rhapsodized about the future, a lone fisherman in a flat-bottomed boat drifted by on the Arkansas, angling for catfish...
When the technicians in Mexico City complete their assessment of the facts and make recommendations, it will be up to the hemisphere's finance ministers, meeting in the same place a fortnight hence, to develop a plan of action. Almost certainly, a heavy share of the burden will fall on the people of the U.S.-as taxpayers and consumers. Under the Alliance for Progress, the U.S. is already committed to $20 billion worth of support over the next ten years. Reversing a position of long standing, the U.S. has also agreed to take part in a scheme designed...
...baptismal ceremony in Madrid's Pardo Palace was over, and now came time to take the family photographs. Little María de Aránzazu Luisa la Santísima Trinidad y de Todos los Santos, born a fortnight ago, was trundled into the boudoir of her mother, Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 36, the only child of Spain's Francisco Franco. All was serene while the photographers snapped away. Then the Marquesa's next youngest child, María del Mar. handed her mother a tiny box. As the last...
...fortnight hence in the Vatican, 2,600 bishops of the Roman Catholic Church will meet in a gathering so rare that only 20 others like it have been convened in the 20 centuries of Christian history. The purpose of the Second Vatican Council is what His Holiness Pope John XXIII, who has the Catholic prelate's traditional wariness of words that suggest drastic change, calls an aggiornamento-a modernization. This self-reform will affect the life, the worship and the discipline of every Catholic; just as importantly, it will affect the way the church looks to other Christians...