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...badly hurt the day that Germany can sell her manufactures in a tariff-free market of six nations and 160 million people, while Britain is walled out. Impelled by this vision, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft last year proposed a plan for a wider Free Trade Area of 16 European nations-including the Common Market six-which would exchange manufactured goods free of tariff but keep national tariffs on agricultural products. This would allow Britain to continue giving imperial preference to agricultural imports from the Commonwealth, and enable her to escape an agonizing either...
...true and strong partnership" with the U.S., Kishi flew off to New York and new worlds to conquer. There, among other things this week, he planned to consult with John D. Rockefeller III. other U.S. businessmen, perhaps put in a good word or two about the advantages of wider U.S.-Japanese trade...
...swing," wonderfully illustrated by a piece called "Nobody Will Room With Me"; the small "spasm" or "skifflle" bands of home-made instruments; the staccato phrasing and polish of Bix Beiderbecke; Paul Whiteman, who "tried to make a lady out of jazz and wound up with a eunuch"; the wider tone colors and neo-jungle rhythms of Duke Ellington; the two-beat music of Jimmy Lunsford; Benny Goodman and the importance of his Fletcher Henderson arrangements; the blues-based simplicity of Count Basie; the thin, sparse sax playing of Les Young; the small jam sessions during World War II made necessary...
...come to maturity so rapidly that some academics have begun to wonder whether it might not be in danger of becoming all too conservative. In any case, the fact that it has Henry Heald as president is a significant indication of its development, for few men have won wider respect in business, government and education. An engineer by training and a conservative by temperament, Heald has made an enviable reputation for performing administrative wonders with a minimum of fuss...
...Wider Ownership." Erhard's plan is to sell 10 million shares at about $12 each over the next several years. This would bring the government $120 million, which is close to Volkswagen's plant investment but well below its estimated assets of $250 million. Erhard aims for "wider ownership of the means of production" by making special provisions for wage earners. The government will give 10% to 20% discounts to Germans earning up to $3,500 a year. To prevent stock control from going to big companies, especially foreign ones, Bonn will limit stock purchases by any buyer...