Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next week the U.S. will try to send a rocket around the moon. At the same time or soon after, the Russians may be tempted to outdo the U.S. by hitting the moon with a big rocket. Last week scientists of the International Council of Scientific Unions met in Washington to plead with both to make haste with due care...
...nothing like the moon. It is, in effect, a superbly preserved relic of the early days of the solar system, sealed off by space and time from contamination by the germs, clouds, and forms of living matter that have developed on the earth. The danger is, reported the council's Committee on Contamination by Extra-Terrestrial Exploration (CETEX), that heedless exploration efforts may contaminate the moon before it can be properly studied in its virgin state...
...Though the U.S. still considers "cartel" a dirty word, it has been forced to change its ideas about cartel-like marketing agreements simply because drops in raw material prices can easily undo all the good of U.S. foreign aid programs. The U.S. is a member of the International Sugar Council, which has tried to stabilize sugar prices since 1954 by setting up export quotas for 25 nations. It has reluctantly led the way in trying to set up an international stabilization plan for coffee to save the world market from the results of coffee-planting binges. Last week 15 Latin...
...argument against metals controls is that agreements tend to set prices too high, make quotas too rigid. Furthermore, metals controls are easily frustrated by the discovery of new or cheaper sources of supply-or by the market dealings of a maverick. The International Tin Council ran out of cash trying to support prices in the face of Russian dumping because it set its floor price at an unrealistic level of 91¼? per lb. With the council out of support funds, the price dropped to 80? per lb., is now firming...
...protect Bolivia and other friendly nations, the U.S. buys no tin from Russia; last week Canada decided to buy its tin only from members of the International Tin Council. Since there is no guarantee that Iron Curtain countries will abide by any metals agreements, Western nations can make stabilization programs work only by standing together in restricting purchases from Russia...