Word: dillon
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...responsible economist predicts a serious or sustained U.S. trade imbalance ahead. But no one foresees the big, fat trade surpluses that the U.S. long enjoyed -$6.5 billion as recently as 1957. At best, says Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, exports will rise $1 billion in the next year, led by lower-priced U.S. cotton and the new jets. These new realities of world trade have moved the Administration to take a sterner view of foreign nations that still jealously preserve high tariffs and import quotas against dollar goods long after the need is past. At next month...
...jammed the sidewalks outside Manhattan's new showplace Coliseum one day last week, while more than 50 cops held the bulging lines. Soon a string of limousines pulled up. Out stepped the President of the U.S., the Vice President, Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss, Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and a retinue of other officials. Waiting to greet them at the Coliseum's main door was a barrel-stout man with iron-grey, curly hair and a broad smile: Frol Romanovich Kozlov, 50, First Deputy Premier of the U.S.S.R.. the Kremlin...
...FOREIGN NEWS), Secretary of State Christian Herter flew back to the U.S. At Washington's Military Air Transport Service Terminal, Herter got a big welcome from State Department aides, the British and French ambassadors, wives and children of his Geneva team. Said Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon: "Congratulations." Herter lifted his scraggly eyebrows and looked at Dillon quizzically...
...Douglas Dillon, U.S. Under Secretary of State LL.D. Citation: "In a troubled time, you provide the priceless quality of quiet, distinguished leadership...
Citing Cushing, President Pusey called him "A prince of his church, ever mindful of the needs of the least of his flock." Of Dillon, the President asserted: "Great-hearted, staunch-minded servant of order and justice in our country and the world...