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...Flap. Many uncertainties still loom over the course of the talks, and the fear is general that France may yet torpedo them over the problem of common tariffs for European agriculture. That fear was heightened last week when Italy announced that it is reluctant to agree to standardize feed-grain prices before 1970 because that would inflate Italian food bills. Coming on top of the Franco-German fight over grain prices, Italy's stand made it even more unlikely that Europe can devise a common policy by mid-December, as the French demand on pain of walking...
...HARD DAY'S NIGHT. In an often hilarious comedy, John, Paul, George and Ringo demonstrate that Beatlemania, taken as they take it-with a grain of salt-can be quite a tolerable affliction...
...silence - and with good reason. Under Novotny's inflexible, inept rule, potentially rich Czechoslovakia has suffered a continuous economic crisis. Industrial production has fallen, productivity has stagnated, and last week the official news agency blandly conceded that Czechoslovakia would be compelled to buy 2,200,000 tons of grain abroad be cause of a disastrous domestic harvest...
After insisting that Europe must reach a common agreement to cut farm tariffs before it would negotiate about industrial tariffs, the U.S. recently relented and urged that tariff talks proceed, for the time being, without a common agricultural policy. Last week France agreed to give the Germans, whose high grain prices have proved a stumbling block, more time to come to terms. That seemed very magnanimous of the French-but they had something up their sleeve. When the Common Market Commission met in Brussels and proposed that the Six adopt a compromise list of 210 exempt items involving about...
...come together, they burn with extremely high specific impulse, the measure of rocket power. Best of all, say their boosters, hybrids are free of the complicated plumbing demanded by the liquids, and their inert fuel cannot cause an explosion. A solid-fuel rocket, on the other hand, has a "grain" (propellant mixture) that burns all over its surface. If the grain is cracked, the sides of the crack may start burning too; pressure may increase until the rocket explodes. The solid propellant can be riddled with cracks or even stacked up like bricks without increasing the burning rate...