Word: poorly
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Beautiful Name. Every Frenchman, rich or poor, peasant or city dweller, would feel the effect. Without food subsidies the price of bread would rise 6%, milk 5%, macaroni 10%. Without government subsidies to nationalized industries cigarettes, coal, electricity and train tickets would be more expensive. For all veterans, except those over 65 or with more than 50% disability, there would be no more pensions. ("This is to give new value to the beautiful name of veteran," enthused Veterans Minister Edmond Michelet.) For farmers there would be no more subsidies for the planting of olive trees, and there would be higher...
Harsh Proposition. De Gaulle, and his conservative Finance Minister Antoine Pinay (a small-town tanner before entering politics) added two other anti-inflationary controls. To keep wages in line, they abolished the old system of pegging salaries to the cost-of-living index-though to compensate France's poor for increased food costs they decreed a 5.5% raise in the minimum wage. And by the removal of import quotas on a wide list of products. France's manufacturers would be exposed to so much foreign competition that it would be difficult for them to raise prices. Had these...
Between a cagey, determined peasantry on one side and the knowledge that Nikita Khrushchev must think this is a poor way to run a socialist country, Gomulka must do a delicate dance. Just before his Moscow trip last fall, he proclaimed that renewed collectivization "is inevitable." Immediately, private farmers began slaughtering livestock to avoid being forced to turn it over to the state. They sold so many calves on the open market that Poland, glutted with meat in 1958, faces a meat shortage...
...columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, stood before U.S. Judge Sylvester J. Ryan in November 1957, the court expressed sympathy ("the Joan of Arc of her profession") even while holding her in contempt of court. Last week Judge Ryan was not so generous. "You set a very poor example for your fellow citizens," he said, after Columnist Torre declined once more to share a secret she has kept for two years. The judge ordered her to jail...
Crisis of Faith. Snow's novel follows the familiar pattern of a pietistic tract-vocation, doubts, doubts resolved, ordination, temptation, temptation defeated, final serenity of soul. Its hero and narrator is Arthur Miles, only son of a poor, Nonconformist family, who finds his vocation for science by reading H. G. Wells and looking at the evening star through a toy telescope. By arduously won scholarships, he finds himself at King's College, London, peering at crystals and within reach of the Royal Society ("my Mecca and my Westminster and my Rome"). A vision of sanctity comes to Miles...