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...most far-reaching social upheaval since the Industrial Revolution. In today's welfare state -or the "opportunity state," as the Tories prefer to call it-physical and material well-being is shared by all segments of society for the first time in British history, blurring the once rigid frontiers between Disraeli's "two nations" of privileged and poor...
Thus the door was slammed on Britain, but was it finally barred and bolted? De Gaulle is too skillful a tactician ever to be trapped in an absolutely rigid and negative position. Even his acrimonious Paris discourse contained the hint that Britain might be welcomed in the Common Market in five years or so, i.e., after France has had ample time to weld the political unity of the European Economic Community. Venerable Jean Monnet, the father of the Common Market, took issue with De Gaulle by insisting that Britain should be admitted now because it has already "renounced all preference...
...Turn. El Loophole stems from a 1959 presidential proclamation that put rigid quotas on oil imported into the U.S. by ship, but none on imported oil coming in by land. The exemption made for over land imports was intended to placate Canada, which currently exports about 89 million bbl. of oil a year to the U.S. But when he read through the fine print of the 1959 proclamation, Hofmokel, who emigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1923 and has been director of the Port of Brownsville since 1936, decided that it could equally well be applied to Mexico...
...from Disney. Packard and Hewlett have made a success out of two deceptively simple decisions: to make nothing but electronic measuring instruments, and to insist on rigid standards of quality. At Hewlett-Packard, specialization is only relative. The company's catalogue lists more than 900 devices designed for such esoteric tasks as timing electrical impulses that last only one-thousandth of a millionth of a second. The surge in the company's 1962 sales was not because any single product was a bestseller, but because H.-P.'s fertile research department turned out so many new products...
Most of the earth's material is plastic enough to contract evenly, but the thin surface crust is rigid. Instead of contracting smoothly when the core shrank, it cracked and wrinkled, just as in the old theory. Sometimes parts of the earth's crust slid over other parts like sheets of ice in a fast-flowing river. These surface irregularities, much changed by erosion, are the earth's mountains...