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Surveying all the plus factors, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said that the business outlook is "far better than nail-biting pessimists think. The shower isn't over, but the sun shows signs of breaking through the clouds...
RECIPROCAL TRADE: Dulles and Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said the Administration will ask a five-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act with its authorization for the President to cut tariffs by as much as 5% a year. Speaker Sam Rayburn, recalling that the Administration's 1955 request for a three-year extension had barely squeezed through the House, warned that foreign trade next year will require a herculean Administration effort...
...Liberal opposition now raked the Tories for not going far enough. Snapped their finance critic, James Sinclair: "The minister groaned and produced a very small mouse." Perhaps to placate taxpayers who might agree, Fleming pointed out that in 5½ months he had not yet been in office long enough ''to achieve all the measures of tax reform" he would like-a hint he doubtless hoped would not be lost on the voters, who will probably go to the polls again in the spring...
Freud to Fission. The rest of the book is a wife's-eye view of Upton Sinclair's career, written in a mincing, exclamation-pointed style that sustains the author's fond boast of having been the first student ever to gain a grade of 100 in English at the Mississippi State College for Women. Though Mary Sinclair loyally supports her husband's politics, there is a recurring refrain that goes something like: "I told Uppie not to do it, but he wouldn't listen and so he was arrested again." Sinclair fought John...
...will the world get along without Upton Sinclair? Mary wondered about that once. But, said the Sinclair doctor reassuringly: "You should be wondering how Heaven could get along with...