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...course, the Soviet Union is still a dictatorship. But the people are freer now than they were last year, and many of them told me they expected that soon there would be opposition newspapers and groups. You did not find an opinion like that before...
...Bell Telephone Laboratories, announced that the U.S. would show up anyway, the Communists decided to let their scientists go too. One of Gromyko's top aides, Semyon Tsarapkin, kept a beady eye on things, but the top Soviet scientist, jovial Evgeny Fedorov, turned out on occasion to be freer to make decisions without consulting home than the Westerners (including scientists from Britain, France and Canada). After seven weeks' discussion, the scientists had settled on the value of four main methods of nuclear detection...
...Stevenson left looking grim. He was depressed to find inside the Kremlin exactly what he had found outside it during his four-week tour of the Soviet Union: "Misunderstanding and ignorance about the U.S. and the ideas it stands for." Stevenson's proposed remedy: "A much wider and freer exchange of ideas and information, as well as of tourists, artists and athletes...
...committee slashed the bill's time span from five years to three and the President's maximum tariff-cutting authority from 25% to 15%. Likely conference result: a four-year, 20% compromise. That would still be something of a victory for the Administration's freer-trade program: the original reciprocal trade act has been extended ten times since its birth in 1934, but never for more than three years at a stretch...
...alarming 30%. Secretary Anderson set out to lengthen the average maturity of the federal debt, which had shrunk to 57 months, thus keep the Treasury from going to the market so often. He hoped to lessen competition with municipal and corporate issues, give the Federal Reserve a freer hand in controlling the money supply. In spite of complaints from money men that long-term issues would hinder the easing of money rates, Anderson tried several such issues. He judged the market shrewdly. Fortnight ago his longest-term issue (27 years), for $1 billion, was heavily oversubscribed...