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Britain's discontented middle class, says London University Professor Ronald Fletcher, "is actually better off than before the war, but is worse off in relation to those below." Workers own TV sets, cars and motor scooters, often go abroad for their holidays. Free education enables their children to aspire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Status War | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

For those who liked romantic landscapes, Thomas Gainsborough borrowed the techniques of Rubens, but filled his canvases not with figures from Olympian allegory but the workaday life of English villages, to create a kind of Arcadia with a British accent. George Stubbs, Britain's finest horse painter, turned out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MASTERPIECES OF BRITISH PAINTING | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Within the group of newcomers George E. Squires stands out for the inaudibility of his speech. Squires has a record of helping retired people and is fighting for a recreation center for them and a similar center for potential juvenile delinquents. Another newcomer, Andrew Trodden is given a better than...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Elections Feature Bitterness, Comedy | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

¶U.S. Steel, which five years ago began work on developing direct-reduction pilot models at its South Chicago plant, is now designing an almost commercial-sized plant which it is considering locating at its Fairless Works in Bucks County, Pa. ¶Republic Steel Corp. and National Lead Co. have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Rival for the Blast Furnace | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

One of America's real needs is a greater social stratification. A "rising middle class" seems to be absorbing all Americans and their values into its omnivorous Levittowns. Unfortunately, our soil has been tilled by the frontiersman or the commercial farmer--both of them interested in improving their position in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEASANTS | 5/3/1957 | See Source »

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