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...Eden government, standing pat, was in the position of having to justify its conduct to many of its own countrymen. Out on Cyprus, with E.O.K.A.'s amnesty offer withdrawn, bombs and guns went off all over. Terrorists attacked two police stations near Nicosia. A limpet mine, presumably placed by an E.O.K.A. frogman, holed the bottom of a small vessel anchored at the very spot where French and British supply ships were scheduled to unload later in the week...
...huge sums on aircraft, e.g., the Bristol Brabazon, that were abandoned before they ever went into operation (TIME, Dec. 19). And many combat planes, such as the Supermarine Swift fighter (cost: some $60 million), were delivered months or years late, then proved so inadequate that they had to be withdrawn from service. The British, charged Waterton, are "trailing behind America and Russia," which have both produced supersonic fighters in quantity and have bombers in service "twice as big as our largest." Through lethargy and bad planning, Britain's planemakers have missed the rich civilian market for helicopters, light business...
EMPLOYEE BANK ACCOUNTS is latest version of Guaranteed Annual Wage. State of Ohio has approved plan by Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. to contribute between 3? and 5? per hour to individual bank accounts for each worker; money cannot be withdrawn unless worker is laid off. Ohio businessmen go along with plan, but unions so far have said nothing...
...principal competitor; 2) extending preferential prices to favored customers; 3) refusing to sell buses to competitors of favored customers; and 4) inducing officials of municipal bus lines to write restrictive specifications to exclude bids from other manufacturers. As a result, said the complaint, more than 20 G.M. competitors have withdrawn from bus-building since 1925, and no new company has come into the field since 1946. The Government asked the court to "perpetually" prohibit G.M.'s monopolistic practices, and to enjoin G.M. from supplying more than 50% of the bus requirements of four principal bus operators (Greyhound Corp., National...
...marched in in 525 B.C. Emotionally, Soldier Nasser kissed the green Egyptian flag, raised it with his own hands atop Port Said's Navy House, last headquarters of the once-mighty British naval base in Suez. The British, naturally reluctant to officiate at their own funeral, had quietly withdrawn their last troops before the evacuation deadline, but Gamal Abdel Nasser was undeterred in his triumph. Cried he: "This generation of Egyptian people has an appointment with destiny, privileged to see with its own eyes the remnants of the foreign invaders sneak out, back to where they came from...