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...criticism of the code-with its reserve clause, its waiver rule, its draft, which all hamper the individual's bargaining power-Professor Gregory feels that baseball would die without it. "As a sport," he says, "baseball, like the Army, must be authoritarian, with a definite chain of command." That players have improved their status so steadily is a tribute to their stubborn pursuit of the dollar and the support of their fans, which has given baseball "a significance quite out of proportion to its size...
...only would the statements have little value in the South, but they would, more importantly, hamper the future President's effectiveness when he has to deal with the problem. As integration proceeds during the next few years, federal action may from time to time be necessary. In any event, the President must not speak as the candidate who favored rapid integration or slow integration, but as a President who is administering...
...Secretary Antonio Carrillo Flores, whose policy of reduced government intervention in business slowed down and then reversed the flight of capital that resulted from post-devaluation jitters in 1954. Nobody knows better than Economist Carrillo Flores that there are still bad spots in the Mexican economy. Antiquated labor laws hamper development of the textile industry, for example, and Mexican agriculture is still too dependent on cotton...
aviation must be closely regulated with a new system of carefully laid out super highways for jets and a network of secondary "roads" set aside for other, slower planes. The alternative is to hamper the growth of aviation and greatly increase the possibility of disaster for those...
...Japanese imports doubled; they poured in so fast that Japan last week clamped on an embargo for fear of U.S. reprisals. At the same time, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation issued a progress report on the situation in France. Charged OEEC: French tariffs are so high that they hamper both international trade and France's own economic recovery...