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Healey did make a plea for further wage restraint. He tentatively promised more tax cuts and spending increases next spring???but only if unions adhere to the 10% wage guideline. Even if they do, some economists worry, the Labor government in its rush to secure victory at the polls may spur a new round of inflationary consumer spending. Labor Party leaders said at Brighton that Britain ought to spend North Sea revenues to modernize its industry and build new income-producing businesses. By giving most of its goodies to consumers, this minibudget goes in the opposite direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Early Christmas | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Given so much longing for simplicity, they are choosy about movie offers. "The newest script we got," Robbie snorts, "was called Jesus Christs." Robbie is compiling songs for a new album. Until they make it?probably in the spring???they will do more concerts, calling their shots and places at suitable intervals, rather than launching the kind of all-out tour seen in the Rolling Stones' recent invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Down to Old Dixie and Back | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

Hottest heat was that between nimble Lady Astor and spry old Lieutenant Colonel Sir Frederick Hall, 65. This time the Noble Lady, 50, captured her favorite aisle seat (she lost the race last spring??? TIME, July 15). This year, for the first time in the House of Commons, she was hatless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Opens | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Their Majesties announced last week that five courts will be held at Buckingham Palace this spring???on May 8, 9, and 23 and on June 12 and 13. Usually there are only four courts, permitting about 26 U. S. women to be presented to their Majesties, but with the addition of a fifth court, this year, some six or seven more U. S. females than usual will achieve presentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: King unto Lloyd's | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...HOUNDS OP SPRING???Sylvia Thompson?Little, Brown ($2). The bird's-eye view of Miss Thompson's novel is promising. A girl's true love goes to war and is reported dead. Desolate and a bit selfish, she marries with half a heart. Then the grave?which was a living one, a prison camp?gives up its dead. She finds it in her to leave husband and child, to conclude, on a veranda in Fiesole, that she was wise to relight her candle after fate had snuffed it. The story is straightforwardly written out, with honest British cliches of word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary Stuart | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

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