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...popular victory. Be yond question, the great majority of Americans reacted angrily to U.S. Steel's price-increase announcement. That reaction was instinctive, and Kennedy exploited it skillfully. But the popularity of Kennedy's cause, and the dazzling swiftness of his triumph, obscured the almost totalitarian thrust of his attack. In his press conference, the President accused the steel companies of being ruthless; by his own tactics, he made the steelmen look like Milquetoasts. He demonstrated in unforgettable fashion that any organization or group or person that thwarts him can bring down upon itself the overwhelming might...
...under Stalin, began asking for trouble again in 1960 when he smuggled his latest novel, The Unsung Song, out of the country by unorthodox means: unable to contact a foreign publisher, he bundled up his manuscript, attached to it a labeled plea in four languages (see cut}, and thrust it into the hands of two surprised West German tourists who were strolling down a Leningrad street. The tourists got it published abroad, and Naritsa got a visitation from the agents of the Committee of State Security (KGB); today he is under detention in a "mental home." Nikita Khrushchev...
...more to come." Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges called it "one of the most important pieces of legislation to have come before Congress in the last decade." They were talking about H.R. 9900, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962-perhaps the first New Frontier bill that really proposes to thrust to a new frontier...
...possible," has mixed his freer-trade pigments with some protectionist coloration. He placated the textile industry, which can influence many a member of Congress, by negotiating a web of "voluntary" quotas on foreign textile exports to the U.S.-and the new trade bill, bold in its thrust against tariffs, conspicuously fails to make any dent in quotas or other nontariff trade restrictions...
...General, which built Titan II's engines; stored up dozens of new ideas for an advanced missile; instead of dribbling them into the Titan I, it saved them for a brand-new missile. Titan II is considerably bigger (102 ft. high) than Titan I or Atlas, has greater thrust (430,000 Ibs. v. the Atlas' 360,000 Ibs.) and has far fewer gadgets that can go wrong. Says Aerojet-General's A. L. Feldman, technical program manager: "We got rid of all the garbage. Titan II is the simplest, most elegant and most advanced missile...