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...WILLIAM VERITY: The Japanese have allocated tremendous moneys to building up their steel industry. In doing so, they have used the justification that if they cannot sell steel in their own market, they can always get rid of it in the U.S. In many cases, their price in Japan is higher than in either Europe or the U.S. They don't sell on the basis of profit but to fulfill a national need...
...country for people to believe that it's being done. How can a Congressman function if he feels his talks with his colleagues or his constituents are being overheard? We agree that it has a chilling effect, and we'd like to have a hearing to get rid of that feeling...
...early 1960s the Red Chinese also moved into the top world ranks. Now some 100 million Chinese play the sport, and one plant in Canton alone produces 70,000 balls a day. Premier Chou Enlai, himself a buff, urges the Chinese to excel at table tennis in order to rid themselves of "that old inferiority complex toward the Westerners...
...last generation, to a more educated corps of reporters, if only to keep up with the credentials and footwork of the holders of public office." It is, he adds, "one of the more enduring attractions of our business that any bright lad of proletarian or other origin can rid himself of the social and hierarchical pressures of our society to participate, as a journalist, in the political process of our country." (Frankel himself is a German-born naturalized citizen who was graduated from Columbia...
...labeled "extortion," the fifth for stealing $15 from a teacher in order to meet the alleged junior extortionists' demands. As some parents saw it, this was a case for psychiatry, not punishment. They were aghast when Barr reportedly chortled to a school assembly, "I guess we got rid of those little gangsters, didn't we?" In a showdown board meeting last November, a faction of anti-Barr trustees asked for the headmaster's head. Eventually they were mollified by the appointment of an evaluation committee, and two months later, the board voted unanimously to keep Barr...