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...Hope, LL.D., comedian. A master whose wit and satire serve to whittle down pomposity, modify the foibles of our times and help to restrain their perpetrators from self-hypnosis...
...Japan amounted to $1.5 billion, and textiles alone accounted for $504 million. The Nixon Administration has insisted that Japan agree to quotas on all exports of wool and synthetic textiles to this country, and charges that the Japanese refuse to cooperate. The Japanese say that they have offered to restrain shipments of any particular exports that have demonstrably injured U.S. industry...
...Administration has used up most of its options. President Nixon has forsworn not only wage-price controls but also any "jawboning" intervention in individual pay and price decisions. Federal pay increases precipitated by the mail strike are wiping out the budget surplus that he had counted on to help restrain prices. In an election year, he can hardly call for higher taxes in order to frustrate inflation. Nor can he easily request lower taxes or much higher federal spending if recession seems the greater danger. Thus, unless he changes some of his policies, Nixon inescapably faces a hard battle...
Officials of the game must try to find a way to restrain people. Some may claim that ask too much of the aggressive human personality, but I feel there is reason to hope-Wednesday Zuckerman waked away from Brown's Jim Rianoshek after being hit on the head with a stick...
...negotiations. Labor's official position is that it will oppose any guidelines for wages unless there are equivalent restraints on prices, profits, dividends, rents and executive salaries and bonuses (see following story). Even so, presidential guidelines could give union leaders at least a talking point in trying to restrain their own rebellious members. Wage increases might go beyond the guidelines, but they probably would be smaller than if there were no guidelines...