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Though the lists are secret, their contents seeped out steadily. The Common Market, which had the longest list because of last-minute French pressure, wants to exclude about 20% of its industrial imports of $20 billion yearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Trade: Tribute to Perseverance | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...Charlotte, mir him ek guer! [Charlotte, we love you]," cried thousands of weeping, waving burghers, crowding around the palace, right across the street from the showrooms of the capi tal's chief undertaker. At 68 the longest-ruling monarch in Europe, Grand Duchess Charlotte abdicated in favor of her son, Jean Benoit Guillaume Marie Robert Louis Antoine Adolphe Marc d'Aviano, 43, who promised to strive to "ban all that remains of moral and material misery" in his domain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Luxembourg: The Grandest Duchy | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...first slightly optimistic note in the impasse. No one was yet ready to say that the end to Detroit's longest and bitterest newspaper strike was even in sight but both sides at least were talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strikes: 15th Week in Detroit | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

This biography by Ladislas Farago. a military chronicler and World War II intelligence officer, is the longest, hardest and most informative look yet at George Patton. Yet it is painfully under-edited and overwrought. And Farago's digressions into higher political issues, coupled with perhaps the most illegible campaign maps ever printed, serve only to slow down the pace of Patton's breakneck "war of movement." More damagingly, the author has not fully marshaled his own conclusions on the contentious general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War Lover | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

John McCluskey got off Harvard's longest run of the period--five yards--but the Crimson had to punt. This time Mechling had to leap for John O'Brien's high center and Bill Calhoun blocked the kick...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Win a Few, Lose a Few (We Lost This One, 48-0) | 10/26/1964 | See Source »

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