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Under the escape clause, any industry can complain to the Tariff Commission that it is being hurt by imports. The commission can then recommend to the President that the tariff be raised. Presidents have obediently raised tariffs 13 times, turned down the commission's advice 23 times. By law, the President's refusal to raise a tariff can be overridden by a two-thirds vote of the Congress, but this has never happened, since no industry has ever been able to raise such support on Capitol Hill...
While the U.S. continued its support of the U.N.-President Kennedy last week even decided to recommend that the U.S. purchase half the U.N.'s $200 million bond issue to keep it solvent-sharp words of dissent came from Britain. Foreign Secretary Lord Home bluntly criticized both the U.N. and many of its members for policies that, as he sees it, can destroy peace, not preserve...
...CHURCH DISCIPLINE. The council is expected to revise the already lax rules that govern fasts and Friday abstinence from meat. The canon laws that govern the antiquated Index of Forbidden Books will be brought up to date; some bishops have asked that the Index be abolished. The council may recommend that greater attention be paid to science and modern teaching methods in seminaries. Canon law relating to impediments to marriage will probably be reformed-although the church is likely to make a strong reaffirmation of its stand against artificial birth control. Presumably, the council will take a stand against sins...
Because of the failure to reach this year's total, which was $1,500 more than last year's, the drive's board of directors will recommend the goal not be raised...
...mere orchestration, as the Porgy and Bess album with Miles, or his own band on Impulse A-4 reveal. Bill Russo is an equally talented writer for large ensembles, a lonely figure who deeply believes that seriousness and self-conscious composing can be brought to jazz material. I strongly recommend The World of Alcina (Atlantic 1241) and School of Rebellion (Roulette 52063) if you are willing to listen carefully and then re-listen. The same might be said of George Russell, who has worked out his own enlargement of tonality to fit the needs of the improvising jazzman. Jazz...