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...Severest Control. To Harold Wilson there seemed no alternative. During Labor's two years in office, wages of British workers rose 21 times faster than productivity. It was the continuation of a decade-old trend that has priced many British goods out of the world market, brought inflation at home, and imperiled the value of the pound sterling (TIME ESSAY, Sept...
...standstill voluntary; but in recent weeks, company after company had been on the verge of giving their workers raises and cost-of-living increases. Furthermore, the unions were threatening to ignore the freeze and press for higher wages. These pressures led Wilson reluctantly to impose on Britain the severest economic control ever exercised during peacetime in a Western nation...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Playwright Brian Friel, recognizing that each man carries within him both his severest critic and most appreciative fan, converts his insight into a striking dramatic device. Two Dublin actors-Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly-capture our fancy and sympathy as the public and private selves of a young man forsaking his Irish village for an American metropolis...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Playwright Brian Friel, recognizing that each man carries within him both his severest critic and "his most appreciative fan, converts his insight into a striking dramatic device. Two Dublin actors-Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly-capture our fancy and sympathy as the public and private selves of a young man forsaking his Irish village for an American metropolis...
...Indira Gandhi takes over a nation at the moment of its severest crisis in 18 years of independence. In northern India there is the threat of renewed invasion by the Red Chinese, who have already seized 14,500 sq. mi. of Indian territory. To the east and west lies the dilemma that is Pakistan, and the question of how to proceed with the truce agreement that Shastri negotiated with President Ayub Khan at Tashkent. At home, India is plagued by famine, rising unemployment, and just about every other woe that an overpopulated, poverty-stricken land is heir...