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...enemy of the poor. It may be their friend in employment terms." Some Government figures buttress the argument. For example, 800,000 of the 5,800,000 U.S. families that were officially defined as poor in 1966 had increased their incomes enough to rise above the poverty line last year. Their gains were achieved even though inflation had meanwhile pushed the poverty line up from $3,317 in annual family income in 1966 to $3,553 last year...
...Modest in scope, but significant in impact," said Richard Nixon of the foreign-trade proposals that he sent to Congress last week-and so they were. While his message reaffirmed the nation's 35-year-old commitment to freer trade, the President sought only minor new authority to cut tariffs. In effect, he promised that any Nixon Round of trade negotiations would consist only of hard-headed international horse trading...
Second Try. As the Johnson Administration vainly proposed last year, Nixon asked Congress to end one venerable U.S. barrier to trade that is regularly cited by foreign governments as justification for their own barriers. That is the "American selling price," which allows duties on benzenoid chemicals used in dyes and vitamins to be set not on the price of the import but on the cost of making the same chemical...
Much of Nixon's tough new trade policy bears the imprint of Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, who calls it the first "fullscale attack" against "covert forms of protectionism which discriminate against American exports." In a talk last week to the National Foreign Trade Convention in Manhattan, Stans also promised U.S. exporters additional measures of practical aid. One would add some $750 million to the Export-Import Bank's funds. Exporters can now borrow only limited amounts at the bank's 6% interest rate, and must finance the rest of their sales with private loans...
...Last week Halaby's activist style propelled him into the boss's seat at Pan American World Airways, of which he has been president for the past 18 months. Chairman Harold Gray, 63, stepped down after only a year and a half as chief executive of the financially troubled airline, and announced that he planned to retire next year. Surface appearances to the contrary, the switch was something less than a managerial upheaval. Halaby, now 54, has been in line to take over ever since Pan Am Founder Juan Trippe lured him away from Washington four years...