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Nonetheless, 730,000 workers were laid off last week and queued up at unemployment offices to register for government benefits. The number is expected to swell to 3,000,000 if the crisis lasts until the end of January. According to Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Labor's shadow cabinet Minister of Trade and Industry, the social security costs in such an event alone would run to $92 million a week...
...FOGG Old Wedgwood through May 27, and Harvard Wedgwood through June 17, Illustrated Books From the Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs, through June 24, Picasso and Cubism, through May 6, Mon-Sat. 9-5, Sunday...
...advertised a garage sale, opened the doors to her Georgetown establishment and attracted a block-long line of some 2,500 eager souvenir hunters. Barbara offered such items as: a leopard-skin rug ($60), a bathtub full of used cosmetics (two for 5?), a 125-piece set of Wedgwood china ($800), an old telephone that "Henry Kissinger made several important calls on" ($15), some plastic table mats (25? each), some old birth-control pills (two for 5?) and a familiar object hung over the fireplace and labeled, "Historic second-hand toilet seat and lid used at one time or other...
...called for a popular vote in France, which will take place next week, and after Heath suggested the possibility of a plebiscite on the Northern Ireland border issue, Wilson again reversed his stand. He backed a proposal by the chairman of the party's national executive committee, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, that Labor support a referendum amendment being moved by a small band of antiMarket Conservative M.P.s...
...time when he came up for re-election to the key post. In last week's balloting among Labor M.P.s, however, Jenkins won a surprising 140 votes against 96 for Michael Foot, a leader of Labor's left wing, and 46 for former Minister of Technology Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Only three votes short of winning, Jenkins is expected to triumph in the runoff against Foot this week...