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...billion deficit in the balance of payments-if only by a small fraction. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, an opponent of any deal with the Reds, was for this one. So was Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges. So were Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Allen Ellender and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Harold Cooley. Even Barry Goldwater told a New Jersey audience: "I'm going to surprise you, but if our allies sell wheat to the Russians, maybe we should too. It's in the nature of the American people to help hungry...
...Fulbright Country. Performers who go abroad for the Government are supposed to be the "most representative" cultural attractions a $2,500,000 budget can hire, and the vast array of U.S. talent leaves any choice open to argument. Until this year, the State Department seemed almost to look for trouble. A Foreign Service officer decided the broad policies, such as "send jazz to Africa," and then individual performers were picked from serpentine lists provided by the American National Theater and Academy, which picked up a fee of $110,000 a year for managing things...
...strictly otstaly.* Then last year, the Schola Cantorum from the University of Arkansas was refused traveling money; the choir raised its own expenses and went off to win first prize in the Polyphonic Competition in Italy and was invited to the White House on its return. Senator J. William Fulbright promoted the cultural exchange program in the first place; and since the Schola Cantorum comes from the heart of Fulbright country, it was no surprise that the Senator's election-year scowls brought things to a sputtering halt...
Something New. A onetime Fulbright scholar (at Cornell) and Olympic track star, Bassetti studied at the London School of Economics and taught economics at Milan's Bocconi University before entering the family business when he was 26. He shocked his conservative relatives by setting up workers' councils to share in management decisions, took over the textile operation when his father retired in 1954. Since then he has shocked almost everybody. After winning a seat on the' city council, he pushed tax reform, tried to have Milan's trolley fares doubled to cover deficits. A Christian Democrat...
While most of Fulbright's remarks were in the form of playful chidings, his thesis emerged sharply: the conservatives, while quick to use a dictionary-full of patriotic words, have yet to present a concrete proposal for any of the significant questions facing the country...