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...world economic community, Peking officially announced that it would seek to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the 91-nation group that works to lower trade barriers and sets the rules of international commerce. Western companies eager to crack the vast Chinese market are delighted. Says Bruce Vernor, executive vice president of the National Council for U.S.-China Trade, a group of 400 American firms: "We certainly believe this is another indication of China's commitment to an open-door policy...
...Syracuse University's gangling T. (for Thomas) V. (for Vernor) Smith, 66, whose wise and witty lectures induced hundreds of students to expose themselves to philosophy. As a full professor at the University of Chicago, red-haired Philosopher Smith served in the state senate, later was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, was so staggered by the plethora of bills born each session that he demanded Congress "practice birth control." An intellectually humble man who called his students "my junior colleagues," he once said: "Knowledge eventuates as wisdom only in those who claim no monopoly on knowledge. Wisdom...
Many a U.S. strike has been fomented by Communists. Last week, in Detroit, workers in the Briggs Manufacturing Co.'s Vernor Avenue auto-body plant walked out on strike because of Communists...
...record of Congressional Candidate Thomas Vernor Smith is as follows...
...expenses of broadcasting but also to write good scripts. With a $55,000 budget, Director Miller reported, the Council had provided its members with $300,000 worth of broadcasting service. Most popular Council program is the University of Chicago Round Table, in which chatty professors like Philosopher Thomas Vernor Smith and Political Scientist Jerome Kerwin discuss such topics as "The Elections" or "The Abdication of Edward VIII...