a - r notoE, a pitiless easterly air stream brought all the
trimmings of the British winter—voltage cuts, a nuclear power station out of action, and a pre- dictable statement by Mr. Fred Lee, Power Minis- ter, that the electricity generating services are `nothing like sufficient.' Ranks refused to defer an increase in the price of bread, and it was hardly comforting to be told by Mr. John Davies, direc- tor-general of the CBI, that if the Government's prices and incomes policy could not be made to work voluntarily, it could not be made to work at all. In New York the trial of strength between Mayor Lindsay and the Transport Workers' Union neared the end of its second week with the city's buses and trains still out of action, and with the confusion spreading from commu- ters' schedules to management, medicine and finance. Total paralysis in the heart of megalo- polis, long prophesied, sometimes loneingly, by artists and writers, loomed ever nearer.
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