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From a political standpoint, such a move is unnecessary. The Russians could never push Communist leaf-lets through UNESCO presses. The West has an over-whelming majority in the group, and even with the most rigid discipline, Communist delegates could not control policy. Nor need the West counter any propaganda seeping in from Moscow. Working in the cultural field, UNESCO offers little opportunity for the sensationalism which marks General Assembly debates. Partisan speeches on non-political subjects have held little interest for the global audience...
Size, however, has its problems as well as its rewards. From a political standpoint, G.M. offers a tempting target. In the last two years under Curtice, while G.M.'s share of the auto market has risen from 41.7% to 49.9% (and Ford's has gone from 22.8% to 30.8%), Chrysler's share has plummeted from 21.3% to 13.5%. The former independents, which in 1952 accounted for 13.2% of auto sales, have dropped this year to 5.8%. Studebaker and Packard, Kaiser and Willys, and Nash and Hudson have had to team up to stay in business...
...private utilities, suggested that the two sides get together. They reluctantly consented, met in Washington and in Frankfort, Ky., spent most of their time scowling at each other across the table. Finally, they agreed to let power experts see if a solution could be worked out from an engineering standpoint. The engineers, unconcerned with the high-level wrangling, drew up a plan to integrate the public and private power systems...
...High point of the Inter-American Conference at Caracas, from the standpoint of the U.S., was the battle over and passage of a resolution...
Stevens: You won't be gaining much from our standpoint to make the G-2 look awful silly . . . [But] I think you had better . . . handle it as you think best, but let's don't have too much of a spectacle...