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Paradoxically, the attack on freer trade comes at a time when protectionist sentiment in the business community seems to be declining. Dun's Review, querying 260 corporation presidents, reported that nearly 60% of them firmly oppose tariffs. But protectionists wield increasing political influence. Southern Congressmen who used to be major advocates of free trade have become increasingly protectionist. The cause: the once agrarian South is now more interested in building a tariff shelter over its burgeoning industries than in finding overseas markets for its cotton...
Petersen favors a shift in U.S. emphasis from case-by-case tariff reductions to multilateral deals, through which whole groups of nations (in particular, the six-nation European Common Market) would agree to freer trade. Further, he urges that all industrialized nations jointly lower their tariffs to permit a greater flow of imports from developing nations. The question is whether the Administration can sell such a policy to Congress and to U.S. allies-or if it can shift to any new policy without losing much that has been won in getting reciprocal trade extensions through successive Congresses...
LABOR: One of labor's most persistent needlers, Goldwater (whose own store is unorganized) insists that he favors stronger unions-but freer ones. He is in favor of right-to-work laws, has proposed revisions of the Taft-Hartley Act, e.g., toughening restrictions on secondary boycotts, limitations on organizational picketing. He would like a federal prohibition against union spending for political purposes, but sees nothing wrong with business firms that lobby for laws they like...
...Bloomfield Hills. Mich. He taught for a while, worked with Charles Eames designing chairs, in time was turning out chairs of his own as well as large metal screens of innumerable golden rectangles for big public buildings. But primarily, Bertoia is a sculptor whose goal is to find ever freer ways of using metal...
Usually less colorful than this, the informality that runs through extracurricular life does apply to the undergraduate experience as a whole. The 'New Coll.' man is much freer than his Harvard counterpart to determine the quality and scope of his education. If the curriculum is narrow, the professors distant, and living conditions rough, the undergraduate does at least have time and a wealth of opportunity to widen his own interests...