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...Mighty Purge. Who was behind the campaign of terror? Shrill attacks in the progovernment press and radio blamed "the American imperialists" and their allies, but the blame clearly lay closer to home. Even the anti-Western Ghanaian Times spoke of the "urgent necessity for a mighty all-out effort to purge all government departments and party and state organizations...
...quarter a week, cut grass for extra cash, worked a paper route. There were, of course, privileges unknown to most children; for example, Teddy received his first Communion from Pope Pius XII. But he still got his spankings with a coat hanger. Anything less than an all-out effort, whether in geometry or golf, was bound to bring a reprimand from his father. Recalls Sister Jean, the wife of Stephen Smith, who helps manage the family fortune: "Daddy always said, 'Never take second best.' " Says Teddy with studied understatement: ''We felt our father's presence...
When the U.S. Senate last week passed the new foreign trade bill giving the President unprecedented power to cut tariffs (see THE NATION), the majority of U.S. businessmen cheered. The burgeoning of Europe's Common Market had left the U.S. little alternative to an all-out drive for freer trade; the U.S. must barter down
...Europe's big businessmen are totally reconciled to the notion of all-out competition. Belgium's Nokin and The Netherlands' Philips are both clearly worried lest the Common Market Executive in Brussels cracks down too harshly on pricing agreements among European manufacturers. But unlike some politicians within the Six, the European business community is almost unanimous in favoring Britain's prompt admittance to the Common Market. And if, as most of the businessmen ardently desire, the economic unity of the Common Market ultimately leads to political unity, Europe's business leaders will be able...
...White House with his top economics lieutenants, including Chief Economics Adviser Walter Heller, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges and a half dozen others. Also there in good grace: Paul Samuelson. Heller and his fellow council members had stayed up until 3 a.m. the night before preparing an all-out case for a prompt tax reduction to perk up the economy-and they presented it forcefully to Kennedy...