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England has seen nothing like it since the boom days of the Beatles a decade ago-if then. The record charts in Britain last week told a startling tale of domination of the pop-music market. Of the 100 bestselling singles, almost 25% are the work of one group. In little more than a month, the group has sold 1 million records...
Some British theorists think that the Russians intend the new ships to serve an anticipated boom in East-West trade. The most popular explanation for the shipbuilding surge, though, reflects cold-war logic. The Soviets want the hard currency that their shipping industry can earn-especially U.S. dollars and West German marks-and the prestige that can come from showing the red flag around the world. Adds Karl-Heinz Sager, deputy chairman of Hamburg's Hapag-Lloyd shippers: "The Russians are also learning a great deal about the flows of trade and kinds of goods. That kind of information...
...spite of my belief in the First Amendment, the cover story on pornography [April 5] upset me greatly. The porn boom has reached levels that are totally antifemale, antifreedom, anti-love. The result: dehumanization...
...cutbacks underscore a paradoxical development in a confusing model year. Sales of the 1976 cars that went on display in September have raced 37% ahead of a year earlier and are building close to a boom. Volume for calendar 1976 could easily hit 10.25 million cars, making it the third biggest year ever, after 1973 (11.35 million cars) and 1972 (10.48 million). Production is climbing; this March it reached 2.5 million cars, nearly a million more than in March...
...vowed to plunge Britain into the "white heat of technological revolution" to reverse the country's economic decline. But the industrial revival did not happen, largely because Wilson did not have the vision to attempt any but limited measures that merely continued the postwar "stop-go" cycle of boom, inflation and economic bust. Instead, Wilson's major accomplishment was that he seemed to have persuaded his fellow Britons to recognize at long last that their nation must somehow begin living within its means...