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...Foreign Secretary Eden sought out Chou En-lai and warned him that if he presses his demands too far, the U.S. might be provoked to immediate action. Chou, thinking he saw an opportunity to exploit allied differences, replied slyly that he counted on the British to restrain the U.S. Eden was shocked into firmness. There should be no mistake, he said. If a showdown came in Indo-China, Britain would fight at the U.S.'s side...
...Federal Trade Commission last week dropped monopoly complaints against Joseph E. Seagram & Sons and Schenley Industries after they signed consent decrees. Under the agreements, subsidiaries of either of the companies are forbidden to band together to fix prices or otherwise restrain trade among themselves, even though it might be all in the family. The ruling means that price-fixing agreements by different branches of a corporation are legal only if those branches are set up as divisions, as in General Motors, not as separate corporate subsidiaries...
Associate professor Robert McCloskey's article on "The McCarran Act and the doctrine of Arbitrary Power" finds the author fighting for civil liberties in a thoroughly rational and often brilliant manner, against the doctrine that the Supreme Court should restrain itself from striking down some of the overly-broad anti-Communist measures in the McCarran Act. It is the same kind of battle fought by men like Justice Sutherland on behalf of another kind of liberty twenty years ago. The same principles are there: that individual liberty needs Court protection from legislative whim; that "a state does not possess...
Government officials appealed to enthusiastic Aussies to restrain their enthusiasm and give the young Queen a little peace. Both Elizabeth and Philip would need it, for in the next two months, they will travel 14,450 miles, visit 68 cities, attend 26 civic receptions, 34 royal processions, four state banquets, six balls, six garden parties, 17 children's displays and three openings of Parliaments...
...cement industry's basing-point price case five years ago. the Federal Trade Commission ruled-and the Supreme Court agreed-that the "parallel business behavior" of the cement companies in issuing identical price lists for their products was ample evidence of illegal conspiracy to restrain trade. But last week, in a decision that might set a far-reaching precedent, the Supreme Court had a change of heart...