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...powerful influence of U.S. television, books and magazines. Last week, in deadly earnest, a three-man Royal Commission on Publications-Canada's equivalent of a U.S. congressional investigation-was sounding the same theme. But along with its concern for Canadian culture, the commission had an unconcealed economic spur: a demand by the Canadian magazine industry for government protection from U.S. competition...
Looking at the statistics, the Labor Department reported that it sees no impending pickup in new orders that would spur overall factory output: "So far in the fall-period, factory output has not shown a pickup of seasonal proportions...
...lucrative export business to the U.S. has been sharply cut by U.S. compacts. British Motors was forced to put 70,000 on short work weeks; Standard-Triumph had to dismiss 1,700 of its 8,000 workers; British Ford slashed overtime for 30,000. Pleas to the government to spur domestic sales by easing tight credit restrictions have been turned down by Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, who ruled that any encouragement of domestic sales would reduce the incentives to boost exports, which the British economy so desperately needs to maintain a favorable balance of trade...
...unemployment, which in October jumped to 3,579,000, or 6.4% of the working force, he has placed near the top of his list an aid-to-depressed-areas bill. He has said he might cut taxes "for four or five months'' if a recession comes. To spur productivity and business expansion, he favors-with almost all businessmen-faster and more liberal depreciation allowances...
...marriage Memmi describes is "mixed." The hero-narrator is a Tunisian Jew studying medicine in Paris. Marie is a young Alsatian student from a Catholic family. At first the very difference in their backgrounds acts as a spur to their love. When Marie learns that he wants to return to Tunisia to practice among his people, she readily agrees to go with him. But in Tunisia they are met by her husband's family, a noisy, colorful clan she was wholly unprepared for. Their food seems outlandish, their curiosity rude. After the long drawn-out, seemingly crude Passover celebration...