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...government concluded that it could not wait for remedies until the April budget. Pale and worried, Chancellor Harold Macmillan rose in Commons one day last week and announced his new measures. The day before, he had raised the bank rate (equivalent to the U.S.'s Federal Reserve discount rate, now at 2½%) to 5½% - highest since the depression days of 1932-in a move to tighten the supply of borrowable money. Now he jumped on the British consumer, who has been enthusiastically snatching up goods on the "never-never" (British slang for the installment plan). The minimum...
Personality & Family: Short and stocky, he is 68 but looks younger, has greying blond hair and pale blue eyes behind heavy spectacles, is a lively conversationalist and good orator, with the fine Tuscan accent that is highly respected in Italy. To give his children a normal family life, he has declined to move into the sumptuous Quirinal Palace, instead lives modestly in a four-room apartment in Rome with his second wife (his first wife died before the war) and their two children (aged 12 and 11), often walks to work. His hobby: model trains, which take up half...
...tribune, others charged across the Chamber floor at the Poujadist benches. In seconds the floor was a melee of pushing, shouting, punching Deputies. Stools flew overhead, Deputies tore lids off desks to use as weapons. Suddenly, three shots rang out. There in the second-tier gallery was a pale, gaunt young man, waving a nickel-plated pistol and shouting, "Vive Poujade!" The combatants froze into startled silence as spectators grappled with him. A woman screamed and fainted with a clatter among the gallery chairs...
Plants were uprooted from flowerbeds and flung at France's Premier. Oranges, banana peels, tomatoes, even the droppings from the uniformed Spahis' rearing horses showered about him. Pale but resolute, Mollet went up the steps through the barrage to the war memorial, and laid there a wreath honoring Algiers' war veterans. Even as the Spahis cleared a path for him back to his car, the demonstrators swarmed upon the monument, tore his wreath to shreds...
...swings as soon as she sees the White Hunter she calls Bill Buncher: "A powerful red-faced man with very pale blue eyes, slightly bloodshot from staring out over the vast open spaces he inhabited professionally, he bowed and sank into a chair. He went down massively, like a wounded elephant." Tiny is staggered by his fee-$1,800, which includes native servants, gear, a car and a truck. But since it is an anniversary present, her husband insists on their having a "luxury" safari...