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...government until Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey's budget proposals. Healey proposed slashing public expenditure on welfare, increasing government aid to industry and restoring economic stimuli to the limping Envlish economy. The Bank of England helpfully underscored the seriousness of the situation last week by allowing the pound sterling to fall below the $2 level for the first time in recorded history...
Jenkins will speak at 4 p.m. at Pound Hall at the Law School...
...group, we used to build things--castles, huts--anything we could use. They say children who play war grow up peaceful." Peter is the agitator of the lot, an anarchist who feeds to a begging hippie shrimp that customers, as the disgusted workers snarl, "pay good money--$2.85 a pound--for." He echoes a Shavian respect for "the able-minded, able-bodied pauper," who refuses to squelch his imagination in the ranks of unskilled labor...
Last week, for the first time in history, the pound dropped below the $2 mark (to $1.98/9, but the event caused no panic. Confident that his anti-inflation policy has reduced the risks of a run on sterling, and anxious to promote exports (which are helped by a less valuable pound), Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey seemed content to let the marketplace decide for itself what Britain's currency is really worth...
Laws. Law school students make fun of themselves in their annual show, an original musical comedy about a daydreamer who imagines himself such diverse characters as Perry Mason and the Six Million Dollar Justice. Recommended for pre-laws. In the Multipurpose Room in Pound Hall, March 11-14 and 17-20, at 8 p.m. Tickets...