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...Magic Figure. In St. Louis, in a speech to a Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, Nixon took an outspoken stand on a major campaign issue, the "growth" debate. A report by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund set the growth issue fluttering in the political winds in 1958 by urging that the U.S. adopt as a national goal an economic growth rate of 5% a year-as against the average 3% a year over the past half-century, and the roughly 4% a year that economists estimate for the 1960s. Nelson Rockefeller still stands foursquare on a need for a forced growth...
Unequivocal Disavowal. Last week General Gursel staged a public ceremony to reassure the doubters. Before an overflow audience of Turkish citizens, foreign diplomatic and press representatives in the flag-decked Parliamentary chamber, he summoned all 38 members of the junta to a public oath-taking. "As your leader, I will take the oath first," said Gursel. One by one, in alphabetical order, the officers swore "that I will not depart from the aim of organizing a democratic republic according to the constitution, and from turning over the government to an elected parliament...
...were evidently worried over hostile U.S. reaction. Their great fear is that the riots may spur moves to restrict Japanese exports to the U.S., now totaling more than $1 billion a year, at a time when many U.S. rivals are concerned at the inroads of cheaper Japanese goods. Yokohama Chamber of Commerce President Shogo Tanaka sent a letter of apology to the Chambers of Commerce of 30 U.S. cities for "the mob demonstrations fanned by a leftist minority." Japanese toymakers, who sell $50 million worth of toys to the U.S. each year, wrote directly to President Eisenhower expressing "heartfelt regret...
...have dawdled along month after month with no bills on the calendar," said Pennsylvania's Joe Clark to a well-filled Senate Chamber. "Now we find ourselves in a hectic position of disarray, trying desperately to pass enough legislation so that we will not be held up to the scorn of the country...
...told his Liberal Democrats, "We are going to go all out to get the Security Treaty through the Diet." The Socialists went all out to stop him: they blockaded the 76-year-old Speaker of the House in his office; when he was freed by police and entered the chamber, Socialist Deputies nearly strangled him. With only Liberal Democratic Deputies voting, the Security Treaty was approved by a standing vote...