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...must have become a dispiriting confirmation of the mortality he hated to acknowledge, a further assault on the pride he took in past feats of skill and stamina. In 1957 he had been named national amateur fishing champion for catching a 712-lb. tuna with rod and reel, the largest ever landed by rod in Spanish waters. He also boasted of shooting 8,420 partridges in one year...
...badly in need of foreign currency, which it could get from oil sales, and will need even more to pay for U.S. grain. The U.S. is eager to tap the Soviet oil barrel, largely for political reasons. The U.S.S.R. passed the U.S. last year as the world's largest oil producer and now pumps 9.5 million bbl. daily v. 8.3 for the U.S. But Soviet consumption is rising fast too, so that the Russians have little oil to spare for the U.S.; the amounts talked of in the letter of intent would supply only 1.2% of U.S. daily needs...
...written in the early years of this century by Beatrice and Sidney Webb and Arthur Henderson, the big unions were supposed to supply the moderate ballast to keep the national party roughly in line with the P.L.P. Since the end of the Attlee government in 1951, though, the two largest British unions have shifted radically leftwards and increased the split between M.P.'s and trade unionists to alarming proportions. Wilson has so far, single-handedly bridged this gap. As Crossman pointed out, in Bagehot's terms Wilson has acted as the "bridge or buckle or hyphen" between Labour...
...Wilson took office on the principle that only a Labour government could come to a rational deal with the Trade Unions. He is now trying to work out such a contract with the support of Jack Hones, the president of the Transport and General Workers Union, Britain's largest, and Michael Foot, who won over crucial support for Wilson's new policies in an emotional speech at the recent conference in Black-pool...
...crowd, one of the largest and tamest the Orpheum has seen (according to police) was on its feet, stamping, singing, dancing in the aisles, on chairs. The lights went on and the show was over. The house was silent...