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...following the lead of the Senate the week before, voted 394 to 19 for a nonbinding resolution that called on President Reagan to take steps against Japan for failing to lower import barriers. Said Michigan Democrat John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee: "The time for tabletalk negotiations has ended. The President must tell our Japanese trading partner that this nation can no longer sit idly by while Japan's unfair and discriminatory trade practices build and expand Japanese industry at the expense of American firms and workers." In the Senate, the Finance Committee reported out legislation...
With the turning of the leaves and the rapid approach of the gridiron season, familiar grumblings about the system of ticket distribution again highlight dinner tabletalk. The old bruhaha continues to evoke undergraduate gripes and groans, most complainers failing to realize why they must bear the gross inconvenience of requesting their billets two weeks in advance...
Keep 'Em Guessing. Caniff's house on Tor Ridge, a spectacular modern affair-designed and owned by Neighbor Henry Varnum Poor, was a port of call for scores of flyers during the war. The tabletalk kept Caniff abreast of servicemen's slang; the grateful flyers paid their bread-&-butter calls by buzzing the house. As a favor, the Army flew him across the U.S. in a jolting 6-24, to give him the feel of it. He can "still hear the nyaaa-aaaa-aaaa of those motors-and feel the cold, going on hour after hour. Jeez...
...have talked with many intelligent people who are members of this great new TIME audience overseas-and all through what they say runs the same reason for their reading TIME every week as intently and thoroughly as they do. It isn't just a matter of keeping their tabletalk up-to-date or even of keeping informed as you and I do: to be able to think and function as intelligent citizens...
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