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They've got larger quotas to fill and they've been losing too men into the six-month pro he said...
...next year, Labor hopes, voters will have learned to live with stringent new consumer taxes that have helped boost living costs 4%, the biggest six-month gain in 13 years. Meanwhile the tax bite has given the Conservatives a clear edge over Labor in local elections. If Britons were to vote the same way nationally tomorrow, by the Economist's reckoning, they might unseat one-third of all Labor M.P.s and return the Tories to power with a majority of more than...
When the Pictures Start Falling. Despite the fact that Oklahoma City is an air-minded town with one-third of its inhabitants more or less dependent on the aviation industry, its citizens could not honestly say that they had enjoyed their six-month experience. The booms affected people and houses as far as 16 miles from the flight path. A total of 9,594 people complained of damage to buildings, 4,629 filed formal damage claims, and 229 collected $12,845.32, mostly for broken glass and cracked plaster. The reports on the experiment concluded cautiously that the booms did little...
...Scilly Isles, off the Cornwall coast, all was serene in the cozy bungalow where plump, pipe-smoking Prime Minister Harold Wilson relaxed with his family, now and then paddling a boat in and out of rocky coves. Wilson had good reason for contentment. During his six-month stewardship of Britain he had weathered a series of crises that would have shipwrecked a lesser man and brought down many a stronger government. To the surprise of many, Wilson was still Prime Minister, though he had only four votes to spare - the narrowest margin in this century...
...keen personal attention to the Viet Cong intelligence organization, headquartered in Hanoi under the title of "Central Research Agency" (Cue Nghien-Cuu Trung-Uong). Three special C.R.A. centers handle operations not only in South Viet Nam but in Cambodia and Laos as well. Terrorists and saboteurs receive a special six-month course in Haiphong, learning how to blow up everything from ships to oil storage tanks. One pint-size James Bond named Tran Van Bui was out fitted with an automatic pistol (plus silencer), explosives and a small knife that could inject poison...