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...those that specifically asked to be exempted. Michigan's legislature duly voted for exemption, largely because the state lies on the far western rim of the Eastern Time Zone, making for 10 p.m. sunsets in some western towns under Daylight Saving. Residents of more easterly Detroit, however, were loath to lose the extra hour of leisure-time illumination that Daylight Saving gave them. To get the hour back again, they resorted to the referendum...
...year to hungry nations. The plan, in itself a concession to the U.S. and other big grain producers that failed to get guaranteed access to Common Market grain markets during the negotiations, would have required Japan to purchase much of its 5% share of the total grain commitment. Loath to spend cash on that, the Japanese got eleventh-hour permission to substitute a mix of home-grown coarse grains, rice, fertilizer and tractors. Argentina, which fondly expected to sell Japan some of the needed grain, was incensed at the change, only grudgingly signed the final agreement...
...meeting between President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin had also been long in coming. Yet once started, the summiteers seemed as loath to end their dialogue as they had been to initiate it. For five hours and 20 minutes, at least two hours longer than expected, Johnson and Kosygin conferred on a wide spectrum of world issues that the superpowers alone can hope to resolve, interrupting private sessions monitored only by interpreters with a working luncheon attended by their top advisers. When they parted, it was not goodbye but au revoir; they surprised the world anew...
Masefield, unlike his contemporaries, was also not loath to describe the unromantic side of British life. At a time when more traditional poets were writing idylls about Britain, he could write, for example...
Sails for Sunlight. The Genoese have been loath to change their ways even in the face of economic decline. Today, the city's richest businessmen still walk to work rather than buy automobiles; only recently did the last of them abandon the electricity-pinching practice of using white sails to reflect sunlight into their musty offices. Until a new auto strada is completed in 1970, the main stretch of road along the tourist-heavy coastal route between Genoa and the French frontier will remain the two lane Via Aurelia, built by the ancient Romans. Whenever somebody suggests expanding...