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...things run in families besides blond hair and bad teeth. A bent for politics, for instance, or aft ear for music, or a genius for making money. Richard Petty, 30, of Level Cross, N.C., was born with a silver spanner wrench in his mouth...
...over two years, British hostility to the Common Market has troubled relations between the NATO nations. That hostility has sometimes been less than candid. The British argued that by erecting a unified tariff wall against outside nations, the Common Market Six would throw a spanner into intra-European trade. What they really meant was that Britain's exports to the Six would be hurt. Even when they formalized the economic division of Western Europe by organizing the rival but looser seven-nation European Free Trade Association, Britain's leaders insisted that all they were trying...
However badly drawn the Government's White Paper was, it was hardly fair to blame all the difficulties on the Tories. Labor did its considerable best to throw a spanner into the works. "This proposed policy cannot possibly last," declared Laborite Herbert Morrison. He warned would-be purchasers that they may not own their newly acquired trucks for long, and may not get as good a price if & when a Labor government buys the trucking business for a second time. Denationalizing, under such circumstances, was plainly like trying to unscramble an omelet...
...spanner thrower they had in mind was Jinnah. If he refuses to cooperate, the Congress will likely go ahead and form an interim government. Jinnah would then have a clear choice between cooperation and civil...
After three months' apprenticeship, novice munitions workers become full-fledged members of the Guy Fawkes Club, eligible to wear the club badge: a gilt portcullis on a field of blue, above a crossed hammer and spanner bearing the motto: "With Which We Work" over the red rose of England...