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...biggest and loudest of the pending "national security" arguments concerns heavy electrical equipment. A ban on all Government buying of foreign hydraulic turbines and virtually all other equipment is demanded by General Electric, Westinghouse, Allis-Chalmers and other U.S. makers. They contend that U.S. equipment is better and breaks down less, that foreign builders in wartime could not supply parts and services to bomb-damaged U.S. power plants. They admit that they cannot compete with low-wage (about one-third the U.S. average) foreign producers, but plead that the U.S. should support the domestic industry to keep its huge machines...
...Ricci. The loudest cheer was not for Dior, Chanel, Manguin and other big names but for an almost unknown couturier. His collection of neat suits and petite bell-skirted dresses had the buyers raving over "the exciting new house"-and buying. The house is Nina Ricci (pronounced reachy), in business for 27 years in a modest establishment far from the fashionable couture neighborhood. The designer is little (5 ft. 6 in., 154 lbs.), blond Jules-François Crahay, 41, who "merely did what I've been doing all my life." The Paris-trained son of a Belgian dressmaker...
Paging the President. One of the loudest was Pennsylvania's tariff-championing Congressman Richard M. Simpson, whose key advice to candidates as congressional campaign chairman last fall had been to ignore the White House. Pressed to get back to his work in Congress, Simpson arranged to get on the program right after the delegates heard a message from...
...Abraham Halleck, called him "Little Abe." At 14 he worked furiously in local campaigns, hauled voters to the polls as soon as he was old enough to drive a car. In 1917 he signed up as an infantry private, developed his parade-ground voice (the House's second loudest, after Illinois' Noah Mason), won lieutenant's bars Stateside before flu struck him down. At Indiana University, one of the big playing fields for future Hoosier politcos, he maneuvered his way to student-union president, helped earn his own way (food manager for Beta Theta Pi fraternity), made...
Roman Style. Despite an intellectual background-his father is president of the French Medical Academy-Debré is a singleminded, fire-eating French nationalist. One of France's loudest opponents of the ill-fated European Defense Community, he has long been vocally suspicious of U.S. policy toward France, still opposes the idea of European political unity inherent in the Common Market. He believes that De Gaulle's mandate was not a right-wing but a nationalist phenomenon. He would like to see De Gaulle function as a kind of Roman-style elected dictator-with-a-time-limit...