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Caste System. Far worse trouble may lie ahead for Pompidou. That became evident when Georges Séguy, the Communist leader of France's 1,500,000-member Confédération Générale du Travail, warned that Pompidou's term of office "might well be short" because of labor unrest. Without mentioning Seguy by name, Pompidou responded with noticeable speed-and anger. He was convinced, he told his Cabinet last week, that workers "will not be duped and will not let themselves be drawn into irrelevant or violent actions." In any case...
Decked out in a navy-blue double-breasted coat complete with brass buttons, the lass made a brave show of downing the traditional ration of grog. "It tastes quite nice, but I don't think I could manage the whole tot," said Princess Anne, 18, after a few sips. She did better at the British Navy dice game of "great uckers," rolling a six and helping her team to victory. Actually, the Princess' only fluff on her official review of the frigate H.M.S. Eastbourne involved the time-honored British chip. "You'll have to come to Buckingham...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, legions of trusting souls regularly queue up hours before the box office opens to sell its small ration of tickets for a popular performance. The fans who stay up all night waiting to buy World Series tickets almost always exceed the modest supply...
...food is tasteless, monotonous and contains hardly any vitamins," the letter said. "Although we cannot really speak of constant hunger"-the maximum daily ration is 2,413 calories, mostly starch-"constant vitamin hunger is an indisputable fact. It is no accident that in the camps so many people suffer from stomach ailments." Food parcels are forbidden, the men said, and even in the kiosks, where they can buy five rubles' worth of goods a month, "buying green vegetables or other produce containing vitamins is impossible. Any one of us at any minute can be deprived of the right...
Disturbed by the corporate borrowing, Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. warned that it was time to "pressure banks to ration credit." After the stock exchanges had closed for the three-day Easter weekend, the board moved on two fronts. First, it raised the discount rate (the interest that banks pay for the money they borrow) from 5½% to 6%. The increase, second in four months, brought the rate to its highest level since the 1929 crash. To make money more scarce as well as more costly, the board also increased the amount of cash that banks...