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TARIFFS. In his message to Congress on the balance-of-payments deficit, the President warned that "a return to protectionism is not a solution." In a loud hint to tariff raisers, Kennedy later refused to increase duties on imported twine and cordage. As a Senator from the twine-producing state of Massachusetts, Kennedy had testified in favor of higher cordage tariffs before the Office of Defense Mobilization...
...Broadway theater. Caffe Cino, another Village place, concentrates on one-acters, is now doing something called Herrengasse, a Kafkan-Brechtian "sweet and swinging tale of the decline of the West." And Bleecker Street's Premise contains four young actors who do excellent improvisations at the drop of a hint from the audience...
...Reason: they have kept pace for years with disposable income, which is now well above sales. Said Commodity Corp.'s President J. Carvel Lange: "Recent behavior of new orders and sales-a favorable relation of orders to sales, with both in a rising trend-is the first encouraging hint of better general business in the making...
...Paris next week a specially selected body of Moslem deputies, mayors and municipal councilors will meet to discuss the problems of the new Algeria. Though nominally friends of France, the Moslem officials have increasingly reflected the views of the F.L.N., and it would need only a hint for them to suggest that representatives of the F.L.N. take part in the meeting. As a face-saving device for France, Charles de Gaulle may be waiting for just such a demand to get the F.L.N. to the bargaining table...
Beneath Berman's gentle, familial humor and his brilliantly controlled voice, there is the constant hint of tension. Like a sort of Everymanic-depressive, Berman offstage-and sometimes even Berman onstage-rapidly moves from patience to anger, from caution to bravado, from hilarity to gloom. Every line of his rough-weathered face ("Isn't it awful," he says, "to be 34 and look 90?") is on the defensive. He blinks, cracks his knuckles and pulls his hair as he chases worries across his mind: Will the talking records choke off his popularity in clubs? Should he order...