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...freer trade that disappointed high-tariff protectionists. The U.S., however, has pressured Europe's Common Market and Japan to impose "voluntary" quotas on steel exports, and Nixon has made clear that he favors similar quotas for textiles. Another threat to free trade comes from home builders and lumbermen, who want the U.S. to curb timber exports to Japan. Partly because of high Japanese demand for U.S. lumber, domestic prices have risen by nearly 100% in the past year, increasing the average cost of a new house...
...state parks), which would cost $140 million to acquire. San Francisco's 49-year-old Save-the-Red-woods League favors a more realistic 43,234-acre site (with 15,471 acres coming from state parks), which would cost $56 million. Both plans would put hundreds of lumbermen out of work but would ultimately create more jobs-chiefly in the park service-than they would destroy...
...Senate seat occupied by liberal Democrat Lee Metcalf, 55, maintains stoutly that "the rights of the people are being taken away" by Washington. Though Montana has elected only one Republican Senator in 60 years, the Governor strikes a responsive chord among the state's inflation-conscious cattlemen and lumbermen by demanding cutbacks in federal spending. Potentially, however, the most profitable issue for Babcock is the junior Senator's disagreement with the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam policy. While Metcalf advocates that the U.S. "pull out of the jungles and hold the enclaves we have in hand," Babcock...
Americans are incorrigible joiners, as witness the National Association of Former FBI Agents, the Asparagus Club, the Auto Dismantlers Association of Southern California and the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo (lumbermen). A dog named Socrates Lovinger is listed in the Manhattan phone book. In colonial times, cussers were punished with a red-hot poker thrust through the profane tongue. In 1900 a New York judge committed an actress to Bellevue for smoking cigarettes. In 1905 the U.S. had more pianos and cottage organs than bathtubs. Mickey Mantle's testimonial versatility pales beside that of Henry Ward Beecher, the preacher...
Matter of Time. While lumbermen rejoiced, a chill went through U.S. shipowners. "This is the first breach in the dike." said Pacific Maritime Association President J. Paul St. Sure. Shipping men fear that it is just a matter of time before other industries-sugar, newsprint, iron and steel pipe, petroleum-try for the same concessions. Yet shipowners know that the Jones Act has failed miserably in its effort to isolate U.S. shipping from the inevitable tides of economics...