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...British Fords backed up on the Thames docks, steel symbols of the tens of millions in pounds sterling being lost each week that exports were halted. The price of sirloin in London's working-class neighborhoods was up from 98? to $1.05 per Ib. - a sign of the slow but steady pinch on imports. And Harold Wilson's Labor government, moving deliberately but diplomatically, took two steps to cope with - but hardly end - the merchant seamen's strike that, in its second week, was slowly strangling Britain's vital commerce with the outside world...
...earlier forecasts. Right now, Cuba can afford a small crop even less than usual. Some 60% of the harvest is pledged to the Soviet Union under a barter arrangement. The rest will have to compete in a glutted world market, where prices have tumbled 12? to 2? per Ib. in the last 30 months. To add to his sugar blues, Castro also faced a desperate shortage of skilled labor to help bring in the crop...
Resource-rich, highly industrialized, welfare-loving Sweden has long enjoyed the highest living standard in Europe. Prices are stiff (76? for a pack of cigarettes, $9 for a fifth of Scotch, $1.50 per Ib. for hamburger), but after 32 years of unbroken and rising prosperity, Sweden's workers have grown so affluent that about all the tiny, obstreperous Communist Party could find to demand in the last election was "two houses for every family." Swedish families already own 375,000 vacation homes and 300,000 pleasure boats, as well as a car for every four persons. Domestic tranquility...
NASA has scheduled at least six additional Saturn IB tests over the next year, including two or more manned missions to orbit the earth. By then Saturn V, the actual moon rocket towering 364 ft. and with 7,500,000 lbs. of initial thrust, will be ready for its first flight. After last week's triumph, NASA's Dr. George Mueller was saying that "a major step toward the moon" had been made. More enthusiastic officials were even talking about landing an American on the moon in early 1968, a full year ahead of schedule...
...spacecraft, whether the experiment was concerned directly with travel to the moon or with lengthy earth orbit, whether an attempt would be made to bring the dogs back-all such matters remained a secret. Clearly the Russians were putting on the dogs to steal headlines from the Saturn IB launch, but beyond that Western experts were barely able to guess what was up with Veterok (Breeze) and Ugolyok (Little Lump of Coal). But they made an effort...