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Reflecting on television's impact on historiography, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker mournfully told a Montreal audience of a prime piece of source material that got away. At the 1945 San Francisco Conference that set up the United Nations, recounted Diefenbaker, South Africa's late Premier Jan Christiaan Smuts casually tossed away a cigarette packet on which he had scrawled part of the first rough draft of the U.N. Charter. "It was surely one of the world's greatest documents," lamented Dief, "and I wanted to have it badly. But the TV cameras were...
Under Dirkson's leadership, the magazine said, "Republican Senators leave little impact on legislation or the national course and purpose." A key element in this failure, according to Advance, is the virtual non-existence of professional research and planning personnel to develop Republican alternatives to Democratic legislation rather than simply opposing...
...rates.) Since then, business opposition to the Kennedy proposal has melted considerably, and the tax credit now seems likely to be enacted. One blue-ribbon industrial group, the Machinery and Allied Products Institute, did much to swing opinion by pointing out that an 8% writeoff would have as much impact, for most industries, as a 40% speedup in depreciation writeoffs. President Kennedy has also helped his own cause by speeding depreciation schedules in the textile industry and promising that further liberalization is ahead in the railroad, aircraft and machine-tool industries. Businessmen are thus coming to believe that they...
...cushion the impact of change, the agreement calls for a system of "variable levies" which, at the end of an eight-year transitional period, will replace all existing controls. Import and export prices for farm produce will be set for each country by the Common Market's central executive, which will have the power to set "target prices'' (resembling U.S. support prices) for commodities and buy them for storage when high production forces down the market price. Ultimately, by gradual adjustment of target prices between nations, a loaf of white bread should cost no more in Bonn...
...field of foreign policy, Morgenthau has explicit reservations about some of the policy statements TOCSIN has issued. But he told the CRIMSON by phone yesterday that the Washington march may prove fruitful "because the more responsible members of Congress are distressed by the current impasse, and will feel the impact if the demonstration is intelligent and articulate...