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...factor in taking steam out of the bill's opposition is that President Kennedy, master of the political "art of the possible," has mixed his freer-trade pigments with some protectionist coloration. He placated the textile industry, which can influence many a member of Congress, by negotiating a web of "voluntary" quotas on foreign textile exports to the U.S.-and the new trade bill, bold in its thrust against tariffs, conspicuously fails to make any dent in quotas or other nontariff trade restrictions...
...brought in as chairman and president a hustling and autocratic executive named John L. McGara. McGara, 51, who had made his name by merging a complex of plate steel and boiler equipment suppliers into Buffalo's Adsco Industries, abolished Yuba's monthly board meeting to give himself freer rein. He ruthlessly dismissed old Yuba hands who questioned his policies. The directors didn't mind, because McGara promised that with his kind of leadership Yuba would do "in two or three years what it took other companies ten or 20 years...
...naval base in San Diego, the cry goes up: "Let's go down below," or "Let's bug out to T.J." Soon battalions of fuzzy-faced young servicemen are headed across the Mexican border, where the horses run more often, the booze flows freer, and the ladies take off their clothes at the slightest pretext. Since World War II, when...
...noise by 15 or more decibels. In a Rhode Island hospital, when doctors complained that conversations carried from one office to the next, a pencil-sized cylinder was installed in the air-conditioning outlets. "The resulting steady whoosh raised the level of background noise and made the offices quieter-freer of distraction," said Newman. At M.I.T., when the library's noisy air blowers were turned off, students looked up whenever a phone rang or someone checked out a book...
...nations retain trade barriers stiffer than those of the U.S., the Kennedy Administration foresees no major surge in U.S. exports-unless tariffs can be slashed throughout the free world. Agreeing with this viewpoint, the influential U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week resoundingly endorsed the President's drive for freer world trade...