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...MOVE A NATION, by Roger Hilsman. Candid memoir, controversial history and complex political theory are unevenly combined in this Kennedy policy reprise, by a provocative and polemical member of the State Department under J.F.K...
...STEEL. As U.S. Steel goes, so goes the industry, and "The Corporation's" Chairman Roger Blough glumly reported last week that the quarter had gone badly. U.S. Steel showed a 44% decline in quarterly earnings and a 34% drop for the half-year, to $84.6 million. Second-biggest Bethlehem reported a half-year profit drop of 28%, to $66 million. Third-ranked Republic was off 26% for the half-year in earnings, and Inland, Armco, Crucible, Wheeling and Jones & Laughlin came in with similar returns...
Reporting on U.S. Steel last week, Roger Blough calculated that "we have passed the low point. July will be the low month." Most businessmen agree that earnings should improve slightly, but there is bound to be cost cutting and perhaps price increases to help. The Government, they maintain, could help out too. Strong feeling is developing against the President's proposed surtax of 6% or higher on earnings, on the grounds that this is no time to take another bite where the fare has thinned...
...MOVE A NATION by Roger Hilsman. 602 pages. Doubleday...
...Roger Hilsman, one of Merrill's Marauders in Burma in World War II and now, at 45, a professor of government at Columbia University, was one of John Kennedy's academic activists. From 1961 to 1963, he directed the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research; from early 1963 until soon after the assassination, he was Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, then resigned under pressure because of his anti-Administration stand on Viet Nam. This book is Hilsman's contribution to the growing library of the Kennedy era. Cast in the form of studies...