Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...nominal head of the committee was Author Waldo (America Hispana) Frank, but the real organizer was Robert Taber, a Columbia Broadcasting System newsman, and one of a group of U.S. journalists who won gold medals from Castro for getting through to interview him in his Sierra Maestra days. Frank has been a guest of Castro, and Taber of a Cuban publisher. Taber drew up the ad, and Frank mailed it out to his many friends among the intellectual set. They got enough names and money to pay the bill, but a more impressive list could be made from those...
...effort to regain his job, Koch appealed to the faculty committee on academic freedom and to the American Association of University Professors. At week's end, neither group had come to a decision. But another faculty committee, backing President Henry, had already called Professor Koch's letter "a grave breach of academic responsibility...
Creating Competition. Not many of the pleas for quotas or tariffs are likely to be heeded. The Administration and U.S. industry have learned that a quota or tariff system favoring one group usually brings new competition from another. Says a top Commerce Department official: "The inevitable result of controls is for U.S. importers to seek new sources of supply." Although the Japanese voluntarily limited their shipments of cotton goods to the U.S. in 1957, imports continued to rise. Last year they reached $202.3 million, v. $150.2 million in 1958. Japan's share of the U.S. market last year dropped...
...tobacco industry, which ships 25% of all its exports to the six Common Market nations, faces a 30% tariff this summer. The common tariff, when fully applied, will be three times higher than the group's present average. Although cigarette consumption is rising throughout the world, U.S. makers have been hit by tariff increases or outright bans on imports by 65 nations during the past three years. Venezuela, traditionally one of the U.S.'s biggest cigarette customers, has banned cigarette imports...
When Manhattan Lawyer Roy Cohn turned up as head of an investors' group that took control of the money-losing toy train company, Lionel Corp., last fall, Wall Streeters wondered how he had financed the deal. Last week a Lionel Corp. proxy statement revealed that Cohn, onetime chief counsel of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy's Subcommittee on Investigations, was no babe in the jungles of high finance...