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Last week Kennedy did more warding off by proclaiming steep increases in tariffs on some kinds of carpets and glass. The increases had been recommended by the Tariff Commission, but the President was under no legal obligation to put them into effect. By doing so, he stirred predictable resentment in Europe and Japan, and cast doubt upon the sincerity of his own trade bill-but he also helped to win the votes of Congressmen with carpet or glassmaking plants in their districts...
With hard work, low wages and a predilection for free enterprise. Hong Kong has done very well lately. Light industries have blossomed on its steep hills, and exports have risen 76% since 1954 to $745 million-much of it in textiles...
Here, two weeks of skiing runs to around $250 (room, meals), with tow tickets and a dozen ski lessons thrown in. Its altitude ensures reliable snow conditions, plus a good six hours of bright sunshine a day (some Alpine resorts, snuggled in steep valleys, get less than three hours of sun), providing plenty of prime tanning time. For the skiing crowd insists on returning home with a tan, even if it is only on faces...
Lugging his heavy cross, a convict was toiling up the steep street of Jerusalem that led to the hill of execution. He paused once, and would have rested against one of the houses. But the householder, standing in the doorway, told the convict to move on. He had seen plenty of such criminals on the way to crucifixion, and he did not think that they needed coddling. This one, though, turned and laid a curse on him: he was condemned to walk the earth through the centuries, yearning for death...
...customs guards, wielding a billiard cue in the government press office, or in the chamber of the Philippine Congress, both of whose houses are dominated by the Nacionalista opposition. In his 72-minute State of the Nation address last week, Macapagal said, "It's wasted effort to steep the young in virtue and morality only to let them realize as they grow up that their elders are neither moral nor virtuous." He ended in an appeal, "to set aside-partisanship," and, with tears, told the legislators: "We have been elected under different parties, but we have been elected...