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...wing, the lovebirds catch delightful glimpses of such old film favorites as Wilfred Hyde-White, Grégoire Asian, John Le Mesurier, and Terry-Thomas cast as an Eton-educated sheik whose gap-toothed grin would probably pass a camel. T-T has a number of soppingly silly old-boy lines to deliver, but the silliest is allotted to Villain Lorn. "I'm having a party tomorrow night," tie remarks amiably to a wealthy Muslim. "Do come. And bring your wives...
...ownership, declared Izvestia, applied only to the bad old days when capitalists were exploiting the workers. But now that there are no longer exploiters and exploited, "whoever thinks personal property means private ownership is in grave error." In fact, explained Izvestia in a wild ideological leap, "there is no gap between private and public ownership. Personal property is just another form of common ownership, both belonging together like the roots and leaves of the trees...
Filling the Gun Gap. Created during last fall's "gun gap" to add desperately needed firepower to the ground war, McCoy's Navy consists of three World War II-vintage LSMRs (for Landing Ship Medium, Rocket) and the only inshore-fire-support ship in the world, the U.S.S. Carronade (aptly named for an 18th century cannon). Originally designed to pulverize beachheads for invading U.S. Marines, each ship mounts a battery of 5-in. rocket launchers and a single 5-in. naval rifle. Since the Marines had already landed when McCoy's Navy showed up last April...
...give an indication of what is to come, are down 25% . F. W. Dodge Co., surveying six-month activity in the construction industry, re ported that while total building is up 8% over the first six months of 1965, residential building has dropped 1 % be cause of "the mortgage gap." This year, predicted Dodge, 1,425,000 private, nonfarm homes will be built, a drop of 100,000 from earlier estimates...
...spring long, signs of economic troubles had been piling up. Britain's trade gap had continued to widen-by $67 million in June alone. Gold and hard-currency reserves had fallen by $372 million in four months. Inadvertently, Wilson himself had speeded the crisis. Before leaving for his trip to Moscow fortnight ago, he explained to the House of Commons that the new 7% bank rate had been urgently necessary to defend the pound, then went on to add that other emergency measures would come in ten days' time. The warning unnerved investors and sent the pound plunging...