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...avoid such nightmares, industry spokesmen called for self-regulation by the companies, though they were vague on specifics. Oregon Senator Maurine Neuberger, a longtime crusader for labeling laws, was unimpressed: "Self-regulation is at best fantasy and at worst a dilatory tactic." FTC Chairman Paul Rand Dixon was determined to carry out the labeling; once the commission finishes studying arguments next month, it will probably hand down such an order. At that point, following FTC procedure, the industry will have to go into federal court to overturn the order-and the case is almost certain...
...Self-appointed spokesmen in this country are curiously self-contradictory. They sneer at the Russians as professionals who traduce the Olympic ideal. Then, counting up the medals, they add, 'Maybe we ought to do the same thing.' We ought not to do the same thing. We have enough kids hired by colleges to play football or basketball or to run foot races...
Paul Parks, spokesmen for the NAACP, last night hailed the Committee's vote as an "important step in reestablishing lines of communication." He expressed "cautions hope" that the meeting might lead to agreement between the two factions, which have been feuding since last summer...
Ultimately, the High Mountain Sheep Dam will minimize flooding along the Snake and will generate 2,000,000 kw. in a booming region whose power needs are growing by 15% a year. Washington public power spokesmen, plainly miffed, claimed that their huge Nez Perce project would generate 3,200,000 kw., and would tame the flood-prone Salmon River as well as the Snake...
...Gaulle's spokesmen explain that he feels the West should face up to the reality that "China exists," and take advantage of the Sino-Soviet split and the emergence of an independent China policy to open an avenue of contact with the vast human and geographic mass that China represents. Embittered U.S. officials grumbled that De Gaulle has completely overlooked the fact that the U.S. has paid and is still paying to keep troops in South Korea facing the Communist threat, is financing the Chinese Nationalist military effort on Formosa, and is currently engaged in a fighting war with...