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...Western Europe seems to share the problem. French labor and business are chafing under a strict economic-stabilization program designed to lower the growth rate from 7.5% to 4.5%-and prices and wages with it. By imposing a merciless credit hold-down, Italy braked industrial growth from 5% to 1.5% last year. Along with the other problems of its economy. Britain is alarmed by its quickened wage-price spiral. The cost of living has jumped 4.6% in the sharpest twelvemonth rise in a decade, and British housewives this month found that prices had risen for some 3,200 different grocery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: The High Cost of Living | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...machine-gunned by his own cronies. Marlowe himself is brutally "worked over" in an alley, knocked out with a loaded fist, shot at twice, wounded once, and almost raped by one of his clients. Altogether, there are seven murders (four on the screen) and four merciless beatings--enough to catharsise anyone's sadistic impulses...

Author: By John Manners, | Title: A Viewer's Guide to Bogart: Four Classics, Huston's Joke | 1/21/1965 | See Source »

From the superb scenes of war, insurrection, interrogation and factory work to the jargon of "Marxist selfcriticism" sessions, Communist life has rarely been subjected to such a panoramic survey by such a merciless pen. But Author

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Map of Hell | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...about to rebound. "The giant is now stirring," says Sir Leon Bagrit, "and at last a determined effort to modernize is about to begin." It had better begin soon. In the new world war of hard international trade, the panzers of the more progressive trading nations are often merciless. With too many gentlemen amateurs still in command, the British economy is still badly outgunned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Halfhearted Economy | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...clocking for those two miles was a blistering 9:28, and the effects of that merciless pace began to show on Dunsky as the duo reached the half-way mark...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Runners Win Greater Boston Crown; Hewlett Whips Dunsky by 200 Yards | 11/4/1964 | See Source »

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