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Even the European Coal & Steel Community, long the shining practical example of a European readiness to surrender some sovereignty, has come upon hard times. For its first six years, its member nations (France, Germany, Italy and Benelux) went along cheerfully with its expansionist schemes to abolish coal and steel tariffs and to outlaw cartels. But in the past six months, slackening European demand for coal, plus U.S. competition, has stacked up 30 million tons of unsold coal (TIME, March 2 et seq.). Fortnight ago, when the High Authority of the community ordered its members to restrict the production and import...
Membership in the Commission on the Rights, Liberties, and Responsibilities of the American Indian is the only time-consuming activity Professor Schlesinger has allowed himself. This commission was established by the Fund for the Republic after Congress in 1953 resolved to abolish all Indian reservations as soon as possible. The commission's job is to visit the Indians and see if they are ready to be integrated into society. This work naturally takes the professor away from Cambridge part of the time...
From Rio de Janeiro, where he is living in modest circumstances but lionized by Brazilian intellectuals, Delgado told a TIME correspondent: "It was a small affair, but it frightened the Salazar government to death. I suppose they intended to take over some key points, call on me to abolish the dictatorship. Salazar's Gestapo caught on "to plans because too many people were involved-40 or 50. You Americans don't understand the situation in Portugal. It's a police state under very tight control...
What gave committee members the roughest jolt was Slichter's suggestion that the U.S. gradually abolish all tariffs and import quotas over the next ten years. Getting rid of protective tariffs, he said, would expose U.S. businesses to brisker competition, force them to become more efficient, more imaginative, more resistant to excessive wage demands. "No single step that the Government could take," said he, "would make such an important contribution toward strengthening the American economy...
...while the Masters' suggestion is highly satisfactory as the answer to an immediate problem, it should not be adopted as a permanent solution without very careful thought. Certainly, for example, the College should abolish forced commuting before moving in graduates, and it should never bring back the forced commuter system just to maintain some quota of graduate students in the Houses...