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...have gone from shoe leather to traffic jams overnight," says a conservative Barcelona banker, and the analogy is apt. Ten years ago, Spain produced no automobiles, and foreign cars were so expensive (the import duty...
Golden Eggs. Every boom brings its dislocation, and Spain's pell-mell rush to industrialize is no exception. The flood of workers to the cities has sharply cut farm production, forcing Spain to import food. Government spending to feed the development plan has brought a new round of inflation at home, and a horrendous $2 billion trade deficit abroad-too much even for tourist dollars to make up for. Many economists fear that Spain is trying to do too much too quickly. "Our economy is the goose that lays the golden egg," warns Ullastres...
...TIME'S accurate report on Jewish day schools in the U.S. [Dec. 31] contained one allegation that calls for clarification: that many schools "have to import teachers from Israel" because of a "nationwide teacher shortage." Irrespective of a teacher shortage, the deployment of Israeli instructors to Jewish educational institutions in the U.S. is an integral part of the Zionist aspiration to increase immigration to Israel from the U.S.; to link "Jewish communities" outside Israel to the national state of the so-called "Jewish people"; to utilize that linkage for greater political and financial support; and ultimately to "ingather...
Newspapers were once content to dig up their own local news and run some wire-service copy on news of the rest of the world. Then they gradually began to import other material: columns, features, crossword puzzles, even editorials from various syndicates. Today they can add luster to their pages with "supplemental" news sent over leased wires by a handful of big metropolitan dailies. By paying anywhere from $50 to $850 a week, depending on their size and location, the papers, in effect, rent a Washington bureau and a string of foreign correspondents that they could not possibly afford...
...assassination of Abraham Lincoln is one chapter in history that most Americans feel they know by heart. Yet, though it hardly seems possible, this superb big book has found new sources and new perspectives which take on special import in the wake of the assassination in Dallas...