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...Review, querying 260 corporation presidents, reported that nearly 60% of them firmly oppose tariffs. But protectionists wield increasing political influence. Southern Congressmen who used to be major advocates of free trade have become increasingly protectionist. The cause: the once agrarian South is now more interested in building a tariff shelter over its burgeoning industries than in finding overseas markets for its cotton...
...efforts of man to solve the basic problems of food, clothing and shelter, Architect Rudofsky heaped scorn. The obsessive concern for time-and labor-saving devices in the kitchen, he said, has turned the U.S. from a "food culture to a dishwasher culture." As for clothes, "we are victims of the brassière erotic." said Rudofsky. "We have lost a religious respect for the dignity of the human body. We squeeze and distort the body, and our clothes are only shaping it." Man is no better prepared to solve the problems of shelter, said Rudofsky. "About a generation...
...secondary buyer," such as the homeowning World War II veteran, who wants to upgrade to a bigger and better house. "Quality" houses are selling well, but crackerboxes in far-out neighborhoods are slow indeed to move. Says President Jack Hoffman of Chicago's F & S Construction Co.: "The shelter mar ket has disappeared. The days when you could simply sell a roof to put over someone's head are finished...
...three-man Commission* expressed its impatience with "venerable and sanctified cliches about 'press freedom' shouted at the Commission through so many of its hearings," protested that it had no "desire to create a protected haven or storm shelter for Canadian periodicals, and least of all a sanctuary for mediocrity." It declared "that a Canadian periodical press given to a narrow, bigoted nationalism would not be worth salvation." But in its proposals to end the "unfair" threat from the U.S. periodicals that comprise 75% of the magazines Canada reads, the Commission made recommendations that the Winnipeg Free Press described...
...been apathetic and skeptical, the President admitted. Yet civil defense is "insurance which we could never forgive ourselves for forgoing in the event of catastrophe." Therefore, Kennedy proposed a whopping threefold increase of appropriations (from $104 million to more than $312 million) to launch a long-range, nationwide fallout-shelter program...