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...tempo of the debate on foreign trade was stepped up sharply last week. With the time drawing closer for the Randall Commission to submit its trade-policy recommendations, two trade organizations turned in fat reports. And the Committee for a National Trade Policy, headed by Detroit Industrialist John S. Coleman, submitted nine proposals for breaking down tariff barriers...
Next came the French. Joseph Laniel, the husky, stolid Norman industrialist who governs precariously as France's 19th postwar Premier, slipped in like a silent bystander, unable to speak English, unwilling to say much anyway-lest it offend those back home who were considering him as a candidate for France's next President. At his side was pale, ailing Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. The two Frenchmen mistrust each other; in fact, through the 18-hour flight from Paris, the Premier spoke not a word to the Foreign Minister. Neither was sure he would even be in office...
...Seth Ramkrishna Dalmia was 18 he made his first million. Today at 60, Dalmia controls flour and sugar mills, cement and chemical plants, coal mines, banks, insurance companies and six news papers, including the influential Times of India. He is said to be India's third rich est industrialist.* Along the way, Dalmia has come to believe that he is indeed one among men, possessing unusual spiritual qualities. "I shall die peacefully with a smile on my face, "he once wrote, "an enviable state unattainable by ordinary men." And in the style of Indian saintly ones, he is always...
...role of this empire-building industrialist, Martyn Green makes an easy transition from Gilbert and Sullivan to GBS. Even when the tycoon is most pedantic, Green keeps a light touch in his performance...
...hopes to abolish the "visionary" outlook of his old magazine, give as many as 150,000 readers (first printing: 82,000) solid information about international politics and business. The first issue has such articles as the "last message to the West" from Berlin's late Mayor Reuter, Italian Industrialist Adriano Olivetti's explanation of "How U.S. Aid Boomeranged in Italy," and regular departments on investment abroad, the United Nations, "What's Ahead," etc. The first issue of the new magazine was warmly greeted by the internationally minded Christian Science Monitor. Said the Monitor: World "promises...