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...Administration sees it, the President must keep this authority because the interest of a particular industry must be weighed against the national interest. Last week this viewpoint got an unexpected boost from the six-man Tariff Commission itself. Louisiana's Representative Hale Boggs, one of Capitol Hill's most ardent freer-traders, asked the commission members, seated together below the Ways and Means Committee's walnut dais, whether they thought their escape-clause recommendations ought to be final. Commission Chairman Edgar B. Brossard mugwumped, but the other five members all said no. Commented Boggs: for Congress...
...possible," he wrote, "that Soviet leadership feels it necessary deliberately to misrepresent the American viewpoint" when it accuses the U.S. of planning preventive war. "If so, one effect would be to confuse their own people and the people of the Eastern European countries under their domination." Other motives, said Ike, might be: 1) the Russians do not want to cooperate, or 2) as orthodox Communists they still believe capitalist societies are inherently warlike, or 3) their leaders are simply ignorant of U.S. life...
...impoverished undergraduate. Far from it. Having gone through college on a shoestring, I am acutely aware of the problems of the impecunious student; and the last thing I would like to do would be to change the composition of our student body--and I believe this is the viewpoint of the Administration...
Conant prefaced his lecture by describing it as "an extremely personal viewpoint for which my only qualification is a knowledge of human nature." In the latter part of the talk, he discussed the importance of Germany's schools in determining the way educated Germans think about the past and envision the future of their land...
...prejudice in favor of the strangely arid, yet emotionally pompous sociologist's view of man. The trouble is that little except diligence seems left of Pundit Lerner once the prejudice is gone. His middle-of-the-road stance leaves him not only free of bias but bereft of viewpoint. The middle of the road is a good place to be hit by the traffic of history, but a poor place to gauge its destination...