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Britain's highly protected farmers were at first fiercely opposed, but are now coming around. They are enticed by the wider European market, convinced that since Britain produces more per acre and per man than any nation in Europe, they will more than hold their own. With the single exception of Lord Beaverbrook's Express, the British press is enthusiastically pro-Common Market, and most editorialists reproach Macmillan for his hesitancy...
...make the trade gap still wider, British exports in the last three months have dropped 4% below the January-February level. One reason is that Britain seems determined to price itself out of foreign markets. In the past twelve months, the British worker's average wage has risen more than 4% while industrial output has scarcely risen at all. The result: an increase in manufacturers' costs, which in the end could only be absorbed by charging higher prices...
...What the regressing and growing, rebelling and maturing youths are . . . primarily concerned with is who and what they are in the eyes of a wider circle of signficant people as compared with what they themselves have come to feel they are; and how to connect the dreams, idiosyncrasies, roles, and skills cultivated earlier with the occupational and sexual prototypes...
...openly surveying him from head to toe. But Kennedy also offered a dab of graceful deference. When cameramen shouted for another handshake, Kennedy turned to his interpreter: "Say to the Chairman that it is all right to shake hands if it is all right with him." Khrushchev beamed wider than ever, stuck out a fleshy hand for the pose. The formalities out of the way, the two men headed for the embassy's red and grey music room for their first talk. It, too, went well?luncheon was delayed for 30 minutes so the discussion could continue...
...badly written. The editorial briefly mourns the passing of the intelligent layman, and informs it readers that the Journal was founded to present a new figure, the historical successor to the now extinct layman. This new figure, as one might have suspected, is "the fledgling scholar deserving a wider audience for his best work than simply the brilliant grader--in a word, the Harvard undergraduate." One would not have anticipated, however, the ugly name the Journal slaps on this new beast: "the intelligent specialist non-specialist." Small wonder that these beings have lapsed into scholarspeak--no doubt out of sheer...