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...beloved fleet of Cadillacs has given way to a pair of Chrysler New Yorkers, and with a deftly democratic touch, Feisal always sits up front next to the driver. To get just as close to the people, Feisal holds a daily majlis (assembly) and invites everyone-from the richest merchant to the scruffiest Bedouin-to come and get his gripes off his chest. "We believe," says Feisal, "that we represent democracy in its highest form, though its structure may be alien to Western ways...
...price of sirloin in London's working-class neighborhoods was up from 98? to $1.05 per Ib. - a sign of the slow but steady pinch on imports. And Harold Wilson's Labor government, moving deliberately but diplomatically, took two steps to cope with - but hardly end - the merchant seamen's strike that, in its second week, was slowly strangling Britain's vital commerce with the outside world...
Britain's life line is its merchant navy. Last week the life line snapped. For the first time in 55 years, Britain's seamen went out on strike...
...would take at least three weeks for all of Britain's 2,500 merchant ships, the world's largest trading fleet, to return to British ports (British seamen are prohibited by law from striking their ship in a foreign port or at sea). But already at least 500 ships and 12,000 of Britain's 65,000 seamen were idled, and the strike was having severe effects on Britain's economy. Despite Prime Minister Harold Wilson's warnings, some grocers hiked food prices about 10%. The government forbade the export of meat to conserve...
Died. Randy Turpin, 37, prizefighter son of a white Englishwoman and a British Guianan merchant seaman, who briefly tasted fame in 1951 by winning the middleweight crown from an overconfident and undertrained Sugar Ray Robinson only to lose the title two months later in a rematch, after which Turpin wound up wrestling for $30 a night; by his own hand (pistol); in Leamington Spa, England...