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...union program is rather more socialist than Communist; it calls for nationalization of banks, insurance companies and major firms in "strategic industries." Even so, the prospect of even more government control in an economy that is already 12% nationalized worries many Frenchmen. At the voting booth, they may well heed the Gaullist charge that "the Socialists and Communists promise you El Dorado, but they'll give you Chile...
...extravagant behavior, be it passion or madness, he affronts not only the social but the cosmic order, and will incur the vengeful wrath of the gods. The servant dare not speak too freely lest he be cuffed or dismissed. The master pulls his rank and fails to heed. And thus these overweening master-heroes plunge to their doom...
...interviewed several crew members of the Kitty Hawk after it docked and pieced together much of the atmosphere that led to the riot. One inevitable conclusion to be drawn from those interviews is that the trouble might have been avoided if the ship's captain had paid full heed to storm warnings, which had been flapping for weeks and months before...
...there are now 357 divorces for every 1,000 marriages, it is little wonder that children do not necessarily heed their parents' advice or consider marriage their ultimate goal. "There's a healthy disrespect for the façade of respectability behind which Albee-like emotional torrents roll on," says Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin...
Pompidou complained that his neighbors had paid insufficient heed to France's proposals for a common industrial policy and a coordinated approach to developing countries. But his main peeve seemed to be a lack of urgency that Europe should "find her place, her personality, her influence in the world again." Part of the remedy, Pompidou's spokesman later emphasized, would be the establishment of a Common Market political capital in non-NATO Paris-far from Brussels, which is top-heavy with economists and in French eyes tainted with American influence. "If this is not a crisis," the spokesman...