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Within two years, Butler had results to show. Today Britain is flourishing. Production is at its highest level ever. Employment is at record levels. Prices have risen slowly, but wages have pretty well kept pace. Even the Laborite Daily Mirror concedes that Butler is an "outstanding success . . . the man who sets the Socialist opposition brooding." Attlee himself has declared that Butler is the only Tory who knows where he is going...
...Rome saw some off-camera soap opera when high-strung Cinemactress Shelley (A Place in the Sun) Winters, in the midst of a scene, spotted her estranged husband, Cinemactor Vittorio (Rhapsody) Gassman on the set with the other woman, Italian Actress Anna Maria Ferrero. Shelley tossed a hand mirror at Gassman, clawed his face, was aiming a roundhouse right at Anna Maria when Actress Winters' coworkers corralled her long enough for Gassman and friend to escape...
British carriers are to be equipped with big curved mirrors that face aft from the end of the landing runway (see diagram). The mirror is mounted like the mirror of a dressing table, so that a gyro stabilizer can keep it at the proper angle no matter how much the carrier may be pitching. On each side of it are horizontal rows of colored lights. Strong white lights shine into it from near the carrier's stern...
When an airplane makes its approach, the pilot sees a spot of white light reflected in the mirror. If it appears to be above the line of colored lights, he knows that his airplane is above the proper landing path. If it appears to be below, he is lower than he should be. He corrects his approach so that the reflected spot is in line with the colored lights. Then he knows he is right...
...when the job was done, the British realized that the essence of American efficiency was something else entirely. Said London's Daily Mail: "The Americans did things at Fawley which we must introduce into British industry." The British Institute of Management's report, said the Daily Mirror, is "a bedtime book for British bosses . . . It is worth a guinea a word...