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Even the Tories could not fault Labor's timing. Despite a quicksilver majority of three, Wilson has managed to push through his most unpalatable legislation, a series of belt-tightening measures designed to whip Britain's flabby economy into competitive trim. The one issue that might conceivably have toppled the government, steel nationalization, has been discreetly shelved until the next parliamentary session, starting in November. In the breathing spell thus gained, Wilson aims to woo the Liberal Party to his side, thereby boosting his effective majority to a relatively dependable...
Both Lundy and Rudolph are Harvard-educated and Gropius-trained architects. Both have rebelled against Gropius' group architecture, which stresses teamwork over individual ex pression. Both depart from a trim, easily reproduced machine esthetic, and both are influenced by that archromantic, Frank Lloyd Wright, who never would put up with it. Although each is different, they search for individual freedom to make spatial poetry, however flamboyant, that endures. Their concrete lessons may make boxy boredom obsolete...
Barry Goldwater, looking fit and in fighting trim, announced that he will run in 1968 for the U.S. Senate, even if it means contesting his old friend and former colleague, Democratic Incumbent Carl Hayden, now 87 and, with 38 years on the job, the Senate's senior member. Two days later, Barry had another announcement to make. He was, he said, accepting the honorary chairmanship of a brand-new national organization called the Free Society Association. Its aim: to launch a "crusade of political education" about Goldwater-type conservatism. Said Barry: "We feel there are millions of people...
What they see is a trim, agreeable fellow whose all-American good looks at 39 are just this side of boyish, whose doubletakes are this side of coy, and whose laughter and breakups are infectious. He likes to start slowly with an easygoing topical monologue, maybe kidding the Mets ("The only team that has to fight back from a three-run lead"), or poking fun at the New York World's Fair's doldrums ("They've got a belly dancer at the Moroccan Pavilion now, but she has a cobweb in her navel"), or satirizing...
Though $1.3 billion of the President's proposed $4 billion tax trim involved taxes that were due to expire June 30 anyway (such as the tax on air tickets), businessmen cheered the cut's timing. It will not only help raise sales of some items at their seasonal bottom (TV sets, furs, phonographs), but also prevent a slump in peak-time sales of autos and air conditioners by making their cuts retroactive to May 15. Automen, anticipating sales of 250,000 more cars this year as a result of the cut, promised prompt excise refunds (direct from Detroit...