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...Autos. The Government's release of stockpiled copper was different from its aluminum dumping. Copper is in short supply, partly because of the increased demands of the Vietnamese war, and the industry actually welcomed the Government's release of the metal as a way to help avert bottlenecks. In fact, the industry had raised prices in response to increases abroad. But Defense Secretary McNamara, announcing the news at one of those evening press conferences that threaten to become habitual, left little doubt as to what he thought about copper's price rise-or anyone else...
...over Dartmouth for three quarters before the Indians rallied to beat them 20-17. Bulldog quarterback Watts Humphrey passed to tiny Court Shevelson for one score and ran for another to give the Elis a 17-7 halftime lead, but the scored two touchdowns in the last period to avert disaster...
...went on. In Salisbury, Smith postponed for a day his Cabinet's decision on U.D.I. At last, he claimed it was finally made, but refused to announce what it was. Instead, he fired off a cable which, with measured stridence, told Wilson it was his last chance to avert "the implementation and consequences" of "our decision," demanded again exactly what he had been demanding before: independence under the present constitution. But there was one thin straw of hope in the message: "We again offer you a solemn treaty to guarantee our undertaking...
...determination to avert a nationwide steel strike last week, Lyndon Johnson tried just about everything. He summoned both sides from Pittsburgh, installed them in Room 2751 of the Executive Office Building across the street from the White House, and posted guards outside the drab chamber to keep newsmen and lobbyists away. At his prompting, industry and union bargainers labored as long as 1½1 hours a day. As the strike deadline loomed, Johnson cut the lunchtime lag by sending in steaks and ice cream "to keep them hard at it." Toward week's end he talked direly...
...food and fiber the U.S. can grow. "If I am right, and I'm afraid I am," he said, "very much more food will be urgently needed within a short time to avert world calamity." The challenge to the U.S. is to devise new and constructive ways to harness overproduction, to make Godsent abundance a blessing, not a curse...