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Meantime, at Franco's insistence, agriculture has been neglected for industry. Last year's harvest of grain and oranges was only 11% above prewar output, while Spain's population is now 20% bigger than before the war. The cost of living has jumped 40% in the past two years without any compensating increase in wages. And the European Common Market is expected to spell further trouble for Spain's foreign trade, already...
LONDON, April 7--The Macmillan government slashed almost a tenth off income taxes today, bringing the rate to the lowest since prewar days...
Mountolive, by Lawrence Durrell. Politics mixes with sex and sadness in the third febrile novel (others: Justine, Balthazar) of a projected quartet about prewar Egypt...
...Sleeve. Obviously Nikita Khrushchev had not overnight abandoned his belief that "Social Democrats are the worst enemies of the working class." nor were the Socialists of Western Europe eager to revive their prewar Popular Front with the Communists: too many of their comrades have died in Arctic prison camps. Nonetheless, Socialists continue to tug at the sleeve of the conservative governments of their countries with insistent demands for Western "flexibility" in negotiations with Russia...
...this, the third of a projected quartet of novels, Author Durrell continues the febrile investigation of life and love in prewar Egypt so splendidly begun in Justine (TIME, Aug. 26, 1957) and Balthazar (TIME, Aug. 25, 1958). Most of the same characters are still loping through the bedrooms and back alleys of Alexandria: Pursewarden, the slightly mad novelist-diplomat; Justine, the dark-browed, amoral Jewess; Nessim, her millionaire Coptic Christian husband; Darley, the sad-sack Irish schoolteacher; Melissa, the tuberculous Greek dancer. But the protagonist of this new book is a relative newcomer, David Mountolive, who returns to Egypt...