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Help from Outside. If the Kennedy Administration renounces the Reciprocal Trade Act, it must find something better that it can put through a reluctant Congress. President Kennedy is expected shortly to appoint as his foreign-trade adlviser Howard C. Petersen, 51, vice chairman of the free-trading Committee for Economic Development and president of Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust...
...Petersen favors a shift in U.S. emphasis from case-by-case tariff reductions to multilateral deals, through which whole groups of nations (in particular, the six-nation European Common Market) would agree to freer trade. Further, he urges that all industrialized nations jointly lower their tariffs to permit a greater flow of imports from developing nations. The question is whether the Administration can sell such a policy to Congress and to U.S. allies-or if it can shift to any new policy without losing much that has been won in getting reciprocal trade extensions through successive Congresses...
...JOHN P. PETERSEN Arlington Heights...
Pusey will also serve as chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Center. The members, appointed by the Trustees, are J. Petersen Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Ernest Brooks, Jr. of New York City; David K.E. Bruce of Washington, D.C.; Huntington Cairns of Washington, D.C.; R. Keith Kane of New York City; Paul Mellon, founder of the Old Dominion Foundation, of Washington, D.C.; Adolph W. Schmidt of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Stoddard M. Stevens of New York City...
...Petersen Elder, Dean of the Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences, yesterday criticized a proposal to step up the pace of Ph.D. production...