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...most important task for the U.S. in Latin America is to "strengthen our economic relations." This is the main conclusion reached by Milton Eisenhower, president of Pennsylvania State University and his brother Ike's favorite counselor, as a result of his five-week fact-finding tour of South America. His report, made public this week by the White House, called for adopting stable and consistent trade policies, buying commodities for the strategic stockpile to support prices, making substantial public and private capital loans, expanding Point Four help, considering the revision of tax laws to encourage U.S. investment overseas...
...tape storm, lunched at the Waldorf with Mayor Impellitteri and 1,500 other New Yorkers, accepted an honorary degree (King Paul can add Doctor of Humane Letters to his many titles) from Columbia University, dined with U.N. officials twice and attended two receptions. Ahead of them loomed a formidable five-week schedule that will take them to the far corners of the nation in the longest, most thorough U.S. tour ever made by reigning monarchs. Behind them, King Paul and his buoyant Queen left some thoroughly tired Americans. "I could sleep for a week," sighed Mrs. Victoria Gainey, the housekeeper...
...conference was as lively as anything since the testiest press go-rounds of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. There was a roar of good, natural laughter when the President expressed the modest certainty that the State Department would not ignore the suggestions of his brother Milton, after his five-week goodwill trip through Latin America. There was reportorial anger over the news leak on the Warren appointment (see PRESS). And the President in turn was angered when a reporter asked for his version of ex-Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin's contention that Eisenhower had agreed to 19 specific...
Janet Titus '55, Council secretary, and Mary MacGregor '55, treasurer, asked in the petition that the 11 o'clock sign-outs be put in effect on a five-week trial basis "as soon as possible...
Just when things looked blackest, Stratford's interest in its own festival finally caught on. Civic groups and private donors came through with $155,000 in gifts. Tickets sold so fast after the plays began that the original five-week season had to he extended to six. As a result, there will be enough cash left over to set up a permanent organization to make the festival an annual affair in Canada's Stratford...