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...week's events were acutely embarrassing to the British government. As Britain's M.P.s know, the failure of the Pearce Commission to complete its eight-week survey in Rhodesia will surely spell an end to the Tory government's dream of a relatively painless settlement with Rhodesia...
...Painless Way. Whether it is based on fact or not, the Nixon Administration has found the "understanding" useful. The supposed agreement has afforded the White House a politically painless way of gradually erasing what it regards as an unwise, unilateral promise to lay off North Viet Nam. Since 1969, when the White House began citing the understanding to justify quick, small-scale strikes on North Vietnamese antiaircraft sites that had fired at U.S. reconnaissance planes, the "protective reaction" franchise has been steadily broadened. By now, it has been stretched to the point where it can be invoked in almost...
...creating this painless expansion, Kennedy and Johnson pursued a policy of tax cuts and moderate deficit spending counterbalanced by Government actions to limit wages and prices. To spur laggard capital expenditures, the Government came through with a 7% investment credit for plant and equipment and increased depreciation allowances. New equipment and federal job training improved productivity, slashed costs and kept prices down. In 1964 taxes on individual income and corporate earnings were trimmed. The $14 billion that these tax cuts turned back to consumers and businessmen abruptly boosted the economy and added more than $30 billion to the gross national...
...Painless History. Each segment was written by a different author, and each is independent of the others. But they blend perfectly. CBS and the BBC are not content to let history rest: CBS is currently dickering for the BBC series that stars Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I, Henry VIII's daughter by Anne Boleyn. Taken together, the two series constitute a sort of Tudor One Man's Family, elegant television viewing and a painless way to learn some history. -Katie Kelly
...always had a problem with credibility-a drawback that is not likely to be diminished this week when his strikingly self-serving political memoirs are published. Given the success of the Tory government's latest reflationary mini-budget (see BUSINESS) and a relatively painless entry into Europe, Wilson might be remembered only as the man who sacrificed a central principle for short-term gain-in marked contrast to the political consistency of Jenkins...