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Deadly Faith. Apprehensive critics point out that Zworykin may be increasing the very hazard that he is trying to diminish. Drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike become hypnotized because the beautiful highway demands too little from them to keep them alert. If the highway itself does their driving for them, they may fall even deeper into drivers' coma. The cars will speed along the Zworykin highway in a wide and orderly stream, passing and repassing like strands in a braided belt. The drivers will have nothing to do; they can sleep or play cards or stare at the flowing...
...foreign-aid programs diminish, many a hardheaded U.S. businessman has begun to proclaim that free-world nations must be allowed to sell more goods in U.S. markets. On Capitol Hill, however, hostility to this point of view has been vocal and widespread. Gloomy free-traders even predicted that the 83rd Congress would refuse to grant Dwight Eisenhower's request for a one-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, which permits the President to lower U.S. tariffs in return for similar concessions by foreign countries. Three weeks ago the House gave pessimists a pleasant surprise by voting...
...believe that [Soviet] atomic capability is rapidly improving," testified General of the Army Omar Bradley before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week. "... I know of no intelligence which reveals any change in attitude on the part of the Soviet Union or which would give us any reason to diminish or slow down or stretch out our preparedness effort." The same day President Eisenhower submitted to Congress a defense budget which, if approved, would sharply cut the programmed strength of the U.S. Air Force...
...lowering tariffs gradually in many areas, on the other hand, we could permit foreign products to compete with American on nearly even terms, until our imports would equal our exports; thus, the need for U.S. economic aid would diminish. Few workers would lose their jobs, for those in more prosperous foreign plants could buy more merchandise, and even the workers who were displaced could work in the healthier export industry...
...aims . . . This letter is ... in no way intended ... to influence your attitude . . ." Editor Field, who was the biggest contributor ($7,100) to Stevenson's 1948 gubernatorial campaign and who still rents Stevenson's 70-acre Libertyville, Ill. estate, noted tersely: "The letter . . . does not alter or diminish this newspaper's advocacy of Eisenhower for President...