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...said he would have to descend. Control notified the R.A.F. and commercial control towers, which quickly got slow prop planes out of the way. Then the 6-47 headed downward to level out at 12,000 ft. But before it could make an instrument landing, the bomber had to lighten its fuel load. For an hour and a half it circled the field, using up fuel. There was no place nearby where it could dump its dummy bomb load. By 10:30, it was ready to attempt a landing...
...Lighten Senior Load...
...handle current payments. Under pay-as-you-go, the rate of contributions by workers and employers would be periodically adjusted to bring in what the Government has to pay out in benefits. Labor unions oppose pay-as-you-go; they believe that businessmen want it only because it would lighten their social-security taxes for years, at least until benefits exceed income. Eventually, under pay-as-you-go, the contributions tax by both employer and employee might go to 4% or more to cover benefits...
...powers and responsibilities of Prime Minister, and Anthony Eden, due to return from his convalescence at month's end, stuck to his Foreign Secretary's post. Shelved, if not abandoned, was the much-bruited plan to elevate Heir Apparent Eden to Deputy P.M. and lighten Sir Winston's load. But until they get the doctor's reports on how Torydom's Big Two are bearing up, Britons are taking no bets that the reshuffling is finished...
...Party, however, the Prime Minister's enforced rest brought out into the open a strong undercurrent of feeling that he should ease up, share his leadership or even retire. "Far from taking on additional burdens," editorialized the London Times this week. "Sir Winston Churchill should be seeking to lighten his normal load . . . His service to the nation must now come from his incomparable experience, the sweep of his judgment and his flashes of vision, not from a detailed application, however stimulating, to departmental affairs...