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...smiling through his tears as it slowly drew to a close. From an Administration viewpoint, the 87th in 1962 could only be considered an obstinate, balky, frequently frustrating beast. It gave Kennedy one great victory and a few smaller ones; it was marked by a great batch of half-loaf compromises; and it turned the Administration down cold on many of its key requests. The record...
...Half a Loaf. The big drug companies have found an ally in Italy's Minister of Industry and Commerce Emilio Colombo. 42, who has had a bill drawn up that would provide full patent protection for chemical processes in Italy. But under the leadership of Deputy Antonio Cremisini, a Milan drugmaker whose own firm, I.B.I., is among those accused by Cyanamid of pirating its processes, the small Italian companies are putting up an effective political fight to write into the bill an amendment that would guarantee them the right to produce under license any new drug developed...
After weeks of skirmishing between industry pressure groups and Government economists, the House Ways and Means Committee last week began reporting out its reworked versions of the Kennedy Administration's 1962 tax proposals. In most cases, Ways and Means gave the President only half a loaf. Some of the compromises...
...British regimentals become U.S. cavalrymen, and Gunga Din's tame elephant becomes Sammy Davis' big white mule. But Sinatra is no Grant, Dean Martin no McLaglen, and Peter Lawford, a man who looks undressed when not surrounded by a drawing room, is assuredly no Fairbanks. The Clansmen loaf kiddingly through their parts, acquiring suntans. No one, of course, bothers to look bothered as the hostiles approach. Such expressions as are evident reflect the sudsy affability of a pipe fitters' picnic (Hey, get a load of Dino on a horse...
...country by the Common Market's central executive, which will have the power to set "target prices'' (resembling U.S. support prices) for commodities and buy them for storage when high production forces down the market price. Ultimately, by gradual adjustment of target prices between nations, a loaf of white bread should cost no more in Bonn (current price per pound: 14?) than in Paris (6?), though Bonn won agreement that the move toward a common grain price will not begin until the 1964 harvest...