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Died. Eugene Millikin, 67, longtime (1941-56) Republican Senator from Colorado, who retired because of rheumatoid arthritis that confined him to a wheelchair; of pneumonia; in Denver. Lawyer Millikin, who turned to politics from a successful career in the oil business, was a Taft-supporting conservative, a tariff protectionist, a tax expert, and the portrait of a Senator in his look and bearing. His wit was cutting; in a debate he once remarked: "If the distinguished Senator will allow me, I will try to extricate him from his thoughts...
Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, the reformed protectionist who has led the Administration's Capitol Hill campaign for the five-year bill, called the committee changes "unacceptable," vowed that the Administration would "fight to get the legislation that we think is to the benefit of this country." Due this week: a battle on the Senate floor to repair at least some of the Finance Committee's damage...
Working together, these four helped bring about one of the House's finest hours. Said ex-Protectionist Weeks accurately after the voting: "This nation's and the free world's hopes for unity, economic power and lasting peace are strengthened by today's great action...
...Patronizing Assumption." But the sense of injury went deeper than dollars. Particularly galling to Canadians, the inquiring Congressmen found, were U.S. citizens who "adopted a patronizing assumption that Canada, like a poor relation, would remain at our beck and call." Among the symptoms of discontent: revived protectionist sentiment, a desire to divert trade away from the U.S. and "a tinge of 'anti-United States' sentiment which is usually hedged about with protestations of continued affection, but is nevertheless widespread...
...House Ways & Means Committee is ready to recommend a bill providing a three-year extension of the reciprocal trade program, a compromise between President Eisenhower's five-year request and the one-year-and-no-more demands of the congressional tariff bloc. But regardless of heavy protectionist opposition, trade-minded committee Democrats and Republicans will stand pat behind the President's power to overrule Tariff Commission recommendations in the interests of U.S. trade as a whole. ¶Packing for a South American tour, Vice President Nixon nevertheless took time out to provide chow, chat and charm for some...