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RECIPROCAL TRADE: Dulles and Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said the Administration will ask a five-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act with its authorization for the President to cut tariffs by as much as 5% a year. Speaker Sam Rayburn, recalling that the Administration's 1955 request for a three-year extension had barely squeezed through the House, warned that foreign trade next year will require a herculean Administration effort...
...Atlantic City's Convention Hall last week, 879 delegates representing the massive A.F.L.-C.I.O. met with scarcely more than one piece of meaningful business to act upon. The big organization (more than 15 million workers) was clearly a disordered house, thanks to the loss of public confidence in trade unionism engendered by revelations of corruption in the Teamsters Union and other unions. The business: whether or not to boot out the mighty Teamsters (1,400,000 claimed members), who had arrogantly elected Tough Boy Jimmy Hoffa their president (TIME, Oct. 14). Under the relentless prodding of President George Meany...
...General Dwight Eisenhower insisted on Norstad as War Department director of plans and operations. As such, he was the Army's representative in the dickering that preceded unification of the armed services, and with the late Admiral Forrest Sherman is credited with largely writing the unification act. But the newly independent Air Force, says one of his colleagues, "didn't know what the hell to do with him. He was too young to be Chief of Staff." The solution, finally arrived at in 1950, was to name him commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe. Six months...
...will offer (subject to congressional approval) to relax the restrictions of the MacMahon Act in order to share with its NATO partners U.S. know-how in the military uses of atomic energy. It will also propose increased cooperation in scientific education, training and research, with particular emphasis on joint effort in weapons development and manufacture. Likely specific proposals: establishment of a NATO fund for educating budding scientists, establishment of a NATO missiles training and research center, an all-NATO program for exchange of weapons blueprints and designs...
...poor man's pub and the rich man's dinner table, the most hotly debated subject in Britain for weeks past has been homosexuality. The question: Should homosexual acts between consenting adults be taken off the list of statutory crimes in Britain? Last September a special governmental committee headed by Sir John Wolfenden declared that they should. So did many medical men and most of the intelligentsia. Last week, before galleries crowded with spectators (most of them women), Britain's House of Lords gravely debated the Wolfenden recommendations. "Many hesitate," said Labor's Roman Catholic Lord...