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...caused by the Common Market team, led by diminutive Jean Rey, a Belgian lawyer who heads EEC external affairs. Again and again since last fall, Rey stalled the bargaining in order to seek fresh instructions from EEC head quarters in Brussels. As last week began, even persuasive Eric Wyndham White, the British director general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which administers the Kennedy Round, was unable to get Rey to commit himself to a final deadline...
...Father was furious, but Boswell insisted that he really loved the girl. And he really did. As the volume ends, the reader realizes that Boswell was less a fool than he liked to seem, though certainly more a fool than it is safe to be. Pottle leaves-him, as Wyndham Lewis put it, "teetering on the verge of sanity." And he leaves the reader fully prepared for the literary peaks and the emotional chasms that punctuate the landscape of Boswell's later life...
...Sardinia, Sons and Lovers. Wyndham Lewis, Tarr. Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Contes Cruels. Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal. Stephane Mallarme, Poesies. Andre Malraux, La Condition Humaine. Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party. Somerset Maugham, The Casuarina Tree. Guy de Maupassant, Bel Ami. Henri Michaux, Au Pays de la Magie...
...grades range from "A" to "D," but Reisner seems to have marked a few of the worst mysteries with an "X"; an extended search recently turned up two of these--Murder Island, by Wyndham Martyn, and The Screaming Skull and Other Stories, by Sidney Horler. Almost as rare were "A plus" novels: He Could Here Slipped, by Frances Beeding, Murders Force Fours, by David Hume, and The Happy Highwayman, by Leslie Charteris, were the only ones unearthed. The majority of the books received some variety of "A" or "B", however, and students who have read portions of the Reisner collection...
...representatives of the Common Market, the U.S., and ten other nations faced Eric Wyndham White, the British executive secretary for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). One by one, they presented folders bearing the all-important list of goods they wish excepted from the upcoming series of tariff-cutting talks. It was, said Wyndham White, "a historic moment." Cars & Food. In history's most ambitious effort to expand world trade, the Kennedy Round aims at cutting all tariffs among the 64 members of GATT up to 50% now, and eventually eliminating them entirely. Such cuts would enable...