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Help for Henry. Big Steel's Ben Fairless' retort to the protests was: nonsense. The freight cut would, he said, be passed on directly to consumers. They would get the cheaper steel which the company had promised the West Coast when it bought Geneva. But Kaiser, thrown into a bad competitive position, was undoubtedly not interested in cheaper steel if it meant closing up Fontana. And it might mean just that when the current steel shortage is over...
After covering the U.N. General Assembly, Izvestia Correspondent Victor Poltoratsky wrote for his paper the kind of ill-natured piece about New York City that visitors have been writing ever since Dickens. From Moscow last week, New York Timesman Drew Middleton cabled a retort...
...wavering, death-sick world, America can offer a path of hope, a road to sanity, a way to safety, prosperity and world peace. . . . Harassed as we are by domestic strife, some may be tempted to retort, 'physician, heal thyself.' It is true that the American way has at times failed lamentably, but when it has failed it has been because the moral and spiritual factors have been rejected or ignored. Denying God, rejecting God's way, pursuing power and abusing it ... these are the dangers threatening the peace of America, the peace of the world...
...bubble-eyed Quintin Hogg, they asked: What is Tory policy on full employment? Do we believe in planning ahead to prevent mass unemployment? Where do we stand on nationalization? In short, what is our policy? From the bandstand, diehard ex-M.P. Sir Herbert Williams made a weary retort: "I don't know why people should worry so much about . . . policy. It isn't a thing you state, it grows out of circumstance...
...Retort Cynical. But as soon as Coffee took the stand it was obvious that he had all the answers ready...