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...find a policy path in a jungle of opinions and interests, President Eisenhower last summer appointed a 17-member Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, headed by Inland Steel Co.'s Board Chairman Clarence B. Randall (TIME, Aug. 24). The commission, currently holding closed-door hearings in Washington, is expected to report to the President early next year. Meanwhile, the determination to find a sound foreign-trade policy has set off a major tariff-policy debate in the nation.* Last week, two familiar figures spoke up: ¶ In Manhattan, Henry Ford II was the principal speaker at the first...
...restored constitutional guarantees that were suspended after the crushing of last July's bloody Santiago revolt. The news was welcome in Cuba, and might have been greeted even more enthusiastically if Batista had not put through a tough "Law of Public Order" during the state of emergency (TIME, Aug. 17). That law remains on the books, and if its penalties for any Cuban who "spreads, publishes, has published or transmits false rumors . . . against the nation's dignity [and] the credit of the nation or the government" are rigorously applied, ordinary citizens and press may have little more freedom...
From Here to Eternity. A tensely acted movie based on James Jones's wild (and sometimes woolly) novel about life in the peacetime Army (TIME, Aug...
...Cruel Sea. One of the best of the World War II films, based on Nicholas Monsarrat's bestseller and filled with the salt spray and shellbursts of naval warfare (TIME, Aug...
Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones is just the right man for the job. For years he was one of Freud's closest friends (TIME, Aug. 10), and the Freud family has turned over to him a trove of unpublished letters and confidential information. The present volume is only the first of a projected three, but it is enough to suggest that the completed work will be a masterpiece of contemporary biography...