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...score of major issues, businessmen themselves differed. For example, chemical and textile manufacturers and other protectionists lobbied all-out to block renewal of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Committee for Economic Development and many individual businessmen (plus the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. as well) fought to get it passed, and won. Bankers and contractors wanted a highway bill, but the truckers wanted a pay-as-you-ride compromise plan killed because it would have raised their gas, diesel and tire taxes $1 billion yearly. The small businessmen did all right: the Small Business...
...most optimistic talk about space travel comes from the engineers who design the rocketships for the future. All they need for a trip to the moon, they say, is sufficient funds ($4 billion) and an all-out engineering effort like the one that produced the Abomb. To British Astronomer J. G. Porter, writing in the scientific monthly Discovery, "some element of doubt creeps in." His engineering brethren, he says, have overlooked some basic difficulties obvious to any stargazer...
...Tennessean targets are Republican. Democratic Governor Frank Clement has been elected twice over all-out opposition from the Tennessean, which charges Clement with being a front man for his lawyer father. At the head of the editorial column, seven days a week, it runs a list of "Tennessean Firsts," i.e., top-priority goals, such as bringing industries to Nashville...
...more than being told that he lives in an artistic bush league, that every artist worthy of his brush ought to take off for Manhattan and the majors. To prove that they can hold their own even in international competition, West Coast stay-at-homes this year decided on an all-out effort. Occasion: the third São Paulo Bienal, which Brazilian Millionaire Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho has promoted to rank with Venice's Biennale and the Carnegie International as a worldwide roundup of modern...
...watch les vingt-quatre heures, and thousands of them spurned the grandstands to cluster as close as they could to the dangerous turns. The cars to watch, said the wise ones, were the three Mercedes entries, for the Germans had put three months of methodical, painstaking planning into this all-out effort to prove their 3OO-SLR cars the best in the test...