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...ambulances waited alongside the runway at London's Heathrow Airport last week as Prime Minister Harold Wilson returned from his sixth and last explora tory mission to the Common Market countries. The pilot of the R.A.F. Comet had heard a suspicious thump as the plane climbed out of Luxembourg's Findel Airport and, fearing a blown-out nose tire, had radioed ahead for emergency help. It was not needed. The plane touched down in a perfect landing, with only the adhering feathers of a Luxembourgian Redwing to show for the scare...
...that he can land Britain in the Common Market half so easily. Despite some bumps and thumps from his own Laborite Redwingers and a few Tories, Wilson is preparing to make the attempt. "We must not lose the momentum which has been created," he told Commons after returning from Luxembourg. He promised to make the "momentous decision" to apply for membership by about May 1. The decision will be popular; Britain is remarkably united in favor of entry. A sampling of British manufacturers, for example, showed 91% in favor of joining up. Though Britain's cost of living...
Married. Prince Charles of Luxembourg, 39, younger brother of reigning Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg; and Joan Douglas Dillon, 32, daughter of Investment Banker C. Douglas Dillon, onetime U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; she for the second time; in Guildford, England...
...Communist bloc) is generally popular with the voters, the real issue this time is in the Frenchman's portefeuille. His pocketbook is noticeably thinner, in large part because De Gaulle has not done much recently for France's economy. Among Common Market countries, France trails all but Luxembourg in the growth of industrial production, while its cost of living (which rose 14% last year) is the highest in Europe. The unemployment rate, which for years was one of Europe's lowest and most stable, has climbed 11% since November. The Paris Bourse, in the doldrums since...
...spring. The aftersounds from Pans were discouraging. Foreign Minister Couve de Murville hinted that Britain still seemed too preoccupied with faraway commitments to qualify for De Gaulle's Europe. Undiscouraged, Wilson planned to continue his present round of Common Market capitals (he goes to Brussels and Luxembourg this week), in hopes that those on the inside could somehow prevail on De Gaulle to change his mind...