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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, Dec. 22, is wrong in treating lightly, whatever "London newsmen" may say, the matter of Spanish "champagne." The vital question of true and false indications of origin is involved, by implication the copyright and trademark laws, and the whole fabric of international agreements concerning labeling. Without these we would have commercial chaos: "English woolens" from Hackensack, "Scotch whisky" from Illinois, "French perfume" from Mexico, "Florida oranges" from Spain...
...Government it was a year of holding operations. The economy recovered its health; the vexed question of racial integration lay unsolved beneath the surface, but did not erupt into violence. A nation's youth went hula-hooping its uncomplicated way, and science, medicine and industry explored new breakthroughs. But the stones cast at Richard Nixon in Latin America and the Democratic sweep in the congressional elections made manifest a widespread discontent with U.S. policy, foreign and domestic...
...look like a war. All week long, Rebel Leader Fidel Castro's radio blared victory, reported forces sweeping through town after town in Oriente and Las Villas provinces, routing small garrisons, setting up rebels as "civil authorities." The excited trumpeting was probably overdone. But there was little question that the rebels were on the move, or that Dictator Fulgencio Batista's army was retreating to defensive ground in Cuba's big cities...
...Another question mark for 1959 is the state of the nation's foreign trade. To the delight of foreign countries, the new economy's huge purchases kept imports at record rates, though exports plummeted from a peak annual rate of $20.5 billion in 1957 to $16.6 billion the first half of 1958. Gold flowed out of the U.S. at such a rate that there was talk of a flight from the dollar. While exaggerated, the talk underlined the fact that foreign companies are engaged in a vast modernization program, which, with lower labor costs, will give them...
Bishop Pike (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). The celebrated Protestant Episcopal churchman, who believes that man has trouble enough below, poses a good question: "Why go to the moon?" His guest: Chemist Linus Pauling...