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Understandably eager for freer trade are the executives of the many U.S. industries already selling successfully overseas. But less predictably, freer trade has the endorsement, according to soundings taken by TIME correspondents, of many businessmen whose companies are currently suffering from import competition but who are confident they can counterattack effectively if foreign tariff barriers are dropped. Among the generally pro-free trade industries...
Gottfried Haberler, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, said in an interview yesterday that the freer trade Kennedy proposed would contribute to American economic growth. American exports are primarily from high-wage industries, so freer trade would encourage a higher wage level, Haberler said...
...Kennedy most vitally needs is Arkansas' Wilbur Mills. It is Mills's Ways & Means Committee that must pass on at least three major items in the Administration's legislative package: liberalized foreign trade, medical care for the aged, and interim tax revision. Although Mills personally favors freer foreign trade, he is under heavy pressure from protectionists back home, and the extent to which he will support the Administration is problematical. Mills goes along with tax revision, but is in flat opposition to President Kennedy's medical-care plan...
Still lifes and portraits represent "pieces of kosmos that we have wrenched apart and carried off with us," Vercors stated. In the next stage of art, man makes freer use of his memory, arranging the facts of nature in his own order to make them say what he wants...
...Kennedy's campaign for wide tariff-cutting powers to keep the U.S. in step with Europe's burgeoning Common Market, Kansas' spunky Alf M. London, 74, expressed emphatic support for the Kennedy proposals. Did he feel strongly enough to quit the Republican party if it fought freer trade? Well, blurted the 1936 G.O.P. standard-bearer who was buried by F.D.R. in the biggest political avalanche in U.S. history: "With the state of the world today, I'd be very much tempted...