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Making his pitch in This Week Magazine, aging (71) onetime New Dealer James Aloysius Farley, now board chairman of Coca-Cola Export Corp., unoriginally proposed: "Let's Put Our ex-Presidents in the Senate." Issuing a statement to garnish Farley's article, Octogenarian Herbert Hoover took a wryly negative stand: "I was in favor of giving former Presidents a seat in the Senate until I passed 75 years. Since then I have less taste for sitting on hard-bottomed chairs during long addresses...
...price ($10 minimum) is cheap. On KQED, the viewer can learn anything from how to bid in bridge to foreign cultural habits. And in the works are new riches: a series on photography by Old Pro Ansel Adams, another on the roots of Communism in cooperation with the Hoover Institute on War, Revolution and Peace...
Only two U.S. Presidents, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, ever made long tours of South America, and both trips yielded great dividends of good will. Hoover made his trip as President-elect, traveling by battleship (much against the wishes of outgoing President Calvin Coolidge, who tried to get him to go in a cruiser, because "it would not cost so much"). His reception in Buenos Aires was so tumultuous that the Argentine President had his tailcoat ripped up the back. Hoover also journeyed into Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, met Bolivian government chiefs on a U.S. warship in the Pacific...
...trouble today," says San Francisco's Hoover, "because for the last 20 years we have been putting our transportation eggs into one basket - the development of facilities for the private automobile to the virtual exclusion of every other form of transportation." The answer to the problem, most experts agree, is neither to outlaw the auto mobile in cities, nor abandon the commuter to his fate, nor adopt such oft-suggested schemes as the monorail or the far-fetched "pneumatic tube for people." What the nation's big cities need, if they are not to become monstrous masses...
Broadcasting, said he. needs not merely "a traffic policeman of the ether" to regulate frequencies-about all there is now-but supervision to ensure that broadcasters are motivated by what ex-President Hoover called "something more than naked commercial selfishness." Holders of station licenses, said Rogers, are "trustees for the public," and what he thought of some trustees was made abundantly clear by his review of the quiz scandals...