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...Stirring Plea. The case for greater stimulation in the Big Three economies is straightforward. These countries, the argument goes, have healthy trade surpluses and are entering a period of recovery while other nations are still mired in recession. The weaker countries could solve their unemployment and inflation problems much more quickly if they could earn more through increased exports of goods and raw materials to the U.S., West Germany and Japan; thus those countries should be willing to stir up their domestic economies through more aggressive fiscal and monetary measures. Not until the weaker countries begin to prosper again through...
...night meetings, military feints, rumors of a coup or even a civil war -nothing seemed able to stir Portugal from its state of near-paralysis. For most of last week, as overwhelming majorities of the military and the public called for him to resign, pro-Communist Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves hung on, issuing dark warnings that if he were ousted, the Communist Party's armed militia would swing into action...
...have tended to fill more of a social purpose than a political one. The organizers of the Radcliffe/Harvard Women's Center, located in Phillips Brooks House, are promising to be more active this year, sponsoring consciousness-raising groups and speakers, but their effectiveness will be limited unless they can stir up more general interest and support than they did last year...
Speer's new book may well stir as much interest as his first. Many historians agreed with the judgment of Britain's H.R. Trevor-Roper that he was the brightest of the top Nazis. The focus of the new work is narrower than that of his memoir of the Nazi years, since it peers introspectively at the author's difficult adjustment to life in prison...
...from Mignon Eberhart and E. Phillips Oppenheim, the authors will be unfamiliar to all but cultists. Even the worst of them, though, retain a kind of campy charm. For if the paraphernalia of detection have not changed much over the past 100 years, the women clearly have. In The Stir Outside the Café Royal (1898), demure Miss Van Snoop captures a notorious murderer and then weeps for 30 minutes. Observes the author: "She had earned the luxury of hysterics." Not so Jerry Wheeler, an ex-stripper who, in Angel Face (1937), is all hobnails, barbed wire and mean mouth...