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...MARY WELSH HEMINGWAY 537 pages. Knopf...
...subtitled To Subvert Them All My Days or The Devil Is a Welshman. Delderfield's Angry Young Man, 1929-style, is a young bank clerk named Charlie Pritchard-5 ft. 5 in. of meekness, with horn rimmed glasses. After six years of diligent work in his drab little Welsh seaside town, Charlie still boards in a room formerly occupied by a pickle salesman. He has barely risen to be fifth of six clerks. "That's a safe job," everybody tells Charlie until the poor lad, in quiet panic, begins to see 40 years to retirement stretching ahead...
Under a "drought bill" that grants regional authorities the power to ban nonessential uses of water, Welshmen have been forbidden to water lawns, wash cars or fill swimming pools. Anyone caught hosing his garden is subject to an $800 fine. Beginning last week, more than a million Welsh residents are getting water only between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m., and this week some factories will go on compulsory half-rations. "There are no baths, and clothes don't get washed so often," says Cardiff Housewife Elizabeth Davies. "I used to use the washing machine every...
...grain and food crops are suffering, and food prices are certain to rise. Worse, the drought could force large segments of British industry into layoffs or shortened work weeks. British Leyland, for instance, fears the loss of as many as 1,000 jobs at a parts plant outside the Welsh capital of Cardiff. With unemployment at a postwar record of 1.5 million (6.4%), any further increase could jeopardize the government's wage-control agreements with organized labor. Len Murray, Britain's top union leader, warned last week that unless the jobless rate was quickly cut, there would...
...only pleasant thing to surface from Britain's drought: in a Welsh valley that had been turned into a reservoir years ago, the stone cottage where Percy Bysshe Shelley romped with his young bride Harriet Westbrook and wrote his first great poetry was exposed to view again as the waters dropped...