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...helping hand from Dwight Eisenhower, who traveled to New York for an appeal to some 1,400 newspaper executives. Said the President: "To abandon our program for the gradual reduction of unjustifiable trade barriers . . . would mean a retreat to economic nationalism and isolationism. It would constitute a serious setback to our hopes for global peace...
...turning out cars at a yearly rate of 9,000,000 units, almost 2,500,000 more than the most bullish estimate of 1955's production. As for steel, the bank noted that 26.9% of the industry's output is being taken by automakers, and cautioned: "Any setback in auto production will . . . cut considerably into steel output." It cannot go on without a letup, said the bank. "At some point . . . [either] labor troubles, inventory adjustments or model changes ... is likely to be a temporary source of weakness." The National Industrial Conference Board backed up this view: by midyear...
...news of a major Communist setback in Italy this week, see FOREIGN NEWS...
...clear setback for Fanfani, and a reprieve for Mario Scelba. But there still remained the controversial farm-policy bill, which had sparked the original trouble among the junior coalition partners. In view of his forthcoming trip to Washington, Scelba asked the Chamber of Deputies to postpone a vote on it. His request required a majority of those present, or 275 votes. He won with but one vote to spare (the vote was 276 to 272). Remarked Scelba quietly: "Even a majority of one is sufficient for the next 20 days." His trip to the U.S. was safe...
Four months ago the Vatican moved against Cardinal Segura. appointed an archbishop coadjutor with equal rights and functions plus the right of succession. Last week the 74-year-old prelate suffered another setback. The Vatican authorized publication of a message from its Papal Nuncio in Spain, Archbishop Ildebrando Antoniutti, congratulating the Chapter of the Seville Cathedral for condemning a recent leaflet campaign, "directed against the Pope, the Holy See, the Nuncio, and the Archbishop Coadjutor by means of writings widely distributed from Seville throughout Spain." The leaflets (one title: Segura, Martyr of Truth), attacked the Cardinal's "enemies...