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...E.F.T.A. meeting reflected a new British initiative to ward bridging the widening rift, a new effort to turn the nation's face once again toward the Continent. It was particularly surprising because Harold Wilson's Labor Party has always looked on Europe with a suspicious eye. When Britain applied for Common Market membership in 1961, it was under the leadership of Harold Macmillan's Conservatives; Labor's Hugh Gaitskell, in a slashing speech at Brighton only three months before his death, in effect committed the socialists to stay out of Europe...
...refunds (direct from Detroit) on cars bought between now and July 1, and most air-conditioner makers made arrangements to do the same. The President urged businessmen to pass on the full amount of the tax cut to consumers-and most of them seemed ready to do so. Montgomery Ward and several other big stores said that they would make tax refunds on big appliances bought between now and July 1, even if Congress does not make the cuts retroactive. Said Chicago Discounter Sol Polk, who will go even further and cut prices immediately by the amount of the excise...
Unlike Chekhov's Ward 6 in the clas sic of that name, from which Tarsis drew his title and which was an attack on the abysmal physical conditions in Czarist asylums. Ward 7 seemed almost heaven to some of the inmates by comparison with the wretchedness of Russian life outside. "Personally I'm very happy," explained one of them to Almazov: "I'm fed. I'm clothed. Nobody preaches Communism at me. Do you realize? No propaganda, and you can say what you like! Where else can you do that...
...Ward 7's Almazov finds that among the 150 men in the ward, there is just one "genuine patient," the only one who is the "victim of anything except his lot as a Soviet citizen." The rest of the inmates fall into three categories: 1) "the failed suicides, classified as lunatics because it was assumed (by doctors and politicians, writers and ideologists) that anyone dissatisfied with the socialist paradise must be a lunatic"; 2) the "Americans"-Russians who had tried to get in touch with a foreign embassy or with tourists, usually to emigrate; and 3) "the less clearly...
...Ballou. Silkenly coiffed and carefully educated, the provocative young schoolmarm boards a train headed west to Wolf City, Wyo. To ward off thieves, gamblers and rapscallions, she seats herself across from a Bible-clutching man of the cloth. "I'm Catherine Ballou," she offers demurely...