Word: inge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Labor had a perilous three-vote majority in Commons, Prime Min ister Harold Wilson found it easy enough to keep his party in line. But the urgency of party unity faded when Wil son won his 97-man margin in the March elections. Right-wing Laborites began criticiz ing him for failure to halt inflation or push toward the Common Market. The party's left wing hacked at Wilson for not nationalizing steel, for taking too tough an attitude toward the seamen's wage demands in Britain's five-week-old dock strike, and for backing...
France's Honoré Daumier had a way of drawing out the nobility of commonfolk and the commonness of nobility from beneath wrinkles and warts. Dela croix used his works as models for copy ing. In admiration, Novelist Honoré de Balzac said of him: "That fellow has Michelangelo under his skin." Yet the world's most famous satirist with brush and pen cost his country 12 francs in 1879 to be put into a pauper's grave...
...down from 1,500,000 last year to 1,300,000 this year. Some lenders have lifted minimum down payments from 10% to 25%, increased interest rates from 5¼% to 6½%, and will not do business with people who have moved in from outside the community. Slump ing even faster than the sales of new homes are sales of used homes; many lenders demand an extra ½% mortgage interest to finance them...
Grinning and gesticulating, alternat ing wry wit and high-flown idealism, the junior Senator from New York stumped the Republic of South Africa last week as if he were the last surviving custodian of the white man's burden. At one stop, an enthusiastic crowd knocked him off the roof of a car, but Robert F. Kennedy hardly missed a comma. "I believe there will be progress," he exhorted the residents of Soweto, a black ghetto near Johannesburg. "Hate and bigotry will end in South Africa one day. I believe your children will have a better opportunity than...
Restraints & Spending. U.S. Steel Ad ministrative Vice President R. Heath Larry worries that Johnson is going ";beyond the law" and using Administrative fiat to impose his will not only in the field of wages and prices but also in foreign investments and capital spend ing. Complains Standard Oil (Indiana) Chairman John E. Swearingen: "If you deal with the law, you know the rules and penalties. But what we have now is like a game where they change the rules every quarter...