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...attack was launched in a Philadelphia federal court, where Justice Department lawyers asked for an order that would henceforth specifically forbid the General Electric Co. from fixing prices on any of its hundreds of products. The Justice Department request represented a sharp departure from previous practice under which such a court order would be confined only to the 18 items of electrical equipment on which G.E. was convicted of price fixing in last February's great conspiracy trial (TIME, Feb. 17 et seq.). If approved by the court, the new proposal would make G.E. liable for contempt of court...
Last week, however, the small recovery melted like a snowball on Copacabana beach. The tax-reform bill bogged down. But another bill, full of demagogic appeal, raced through the House. It would forbid foreign firms to sell stocks and bonds in Brazil. It would prohibit foreigners from taking over enterprises "being exploited" by Brazilian capital...
Once again the State Department has begun to consider methods of tying its passport regulations about the necks of subversives. Suddenly very stern, it now threatens rigid enforcement of provisions in the Internal Security Act of 1950 that forbid members of proscribed organizations to apply for permission to leave the country. Possibly the Department will observe the letter of the Act even more closely, and direct a suspicious glare upon itself, for it is also an offense for government employees "knowing or having reason to believe" that applicants are Communists to issue passports to them...
...care throughout the nation, many states go their own way-and often an inadequate way it is. Per capita expenditures for children range from $8 a year in New York to 15? in Idaho. There are thousands of children all over the country who, if obsolescent statutes did not forbid, could be adopted and be given good homes...
...said that he did not want to un-conditionally forbid taking sophomore standing in such situations, since this policy might deter students from enter- fields in which they had not received advanced placement...