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Focuses on the high fares charged by airlines in the U.S. in 1974. Reasons given by the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) for the high fares charged by airlines in the country; Strategies suggested by CAB to reduce the fares; Views of Jack Yohe, consumer affairs director of CAB on the frustration among airline passengers in the country.

The article presents information updates related to books in the United States. W.H. Lowdermilk & Co. of Washington will publish "Deck and Field,'' by Frank Warren Hackett, a collection of papers upon navy and army topics, opening with the two annual addresses delivered before the Naval War College. In "Historical and Political Essays," by William Edward Hartpole Lecky, are collected several magazine articles and biographical sketches, nearly all of which had seen the light in the author's life.

This article presents information on political developments of several nations. The implication is, that the U.S. Republican party is perfectly satisfied with the McKinley Bill, and will insist upon continuing it unchanged for many years. But all thing is in the face of the tariff history of the past thirty years, is in conflict with the actual facts of the situation, and is contradicted by the unavoidable nature and effects of any protective tariff. In addition to all this, the infernal activity and ingenuity of the foreigner are already finding innumerable joints in the McKinley armor. The political situation in England, is to-day probably the most puzzling in the history of the country, and one in which hardly any one's prognostications are of much value. In fact, it has become the fashion, in the strict sense of the term, to denounce William Ewart Gladstone; and fashion now governs, or at all events influences, a far larger circle of the well-to-do people than it used to do.

This article discusses some international issues. In order to grasp the full meaning of the decision of the Republicans of the Senate to prepare a tariff bill of their own as a substitute for the Mills bill, one can make a rapid survey of developments since U.S. President Grover Cleveland sent his tariff-reform message to the U.S. Congress in December last. The Inter-State Commerce Law, as far as it had any definite design, was framed to meet the conditions of railroad business, and especially the evils of railroad discrimination. People might differ, and did in fact differ very widely, in their opinions as to what constituted an unjust discrimination, or how far it was wise for the U.S. Congress to interfere with the liberty of action on the part of the railroads ; but there was an evil distinctly seen which gave the law a specific purpose.

Senator Edward Kennedy introduced a bill, S.34, on January 25, 1971, which provided for a separate National Cancer Authority, distinct from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It was to receive $1.2 billion over a three-year period. The purpose of the legislation was to "launch a nationwide program for the conquest of cancer." The pressure to create a separate Cancer Authority outside the NIH comes in part from such sources. The NIH was dividing the diminishing loot among too many claimants.

At a meeting of the National Conference of Christians and Jews in Houston, Texas a year ago, Arthur H. Compton. the physicist, was asked to commit upon charges then widespread in Houston that the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was subversive. The charges are in fact one facet of a many-sided campaign of red-baiting which has agitated Houston for the past three years. The reasoning of the letter writer, a woman, seemed to be that since a UNESCO booklet says polygamy is as widely accepted a way of life on this planet as monogamy, UNESCO favors polygamy.

The editor, in this article, highlights some international issues. The tariff debate in the U.S. Senate on June 20 between Senators was a delightful contribution to the literature of the subject, and a sample of what the Republicans have to expect in their avowed determination to "force the fighting" on the tariff issue. When the Salvation Army first made its appearance in this city, it was so easy to make fun of that it immediately gamed a good deal of notoriety and no end of "handsome notices in the press." When the American Academy of Political and Social Science was established, there were already in existence, the American Social Science Association and the American Historical Association.

The article presents information on the book "Christopher Columbus, and How He Received and Impaired the Spirit of Discovery," by Justin Winsor. The author has taken upon the threshold of the fourth centenary of the discovery of this continent. It presents an effort on the part of a certain section of the Roman Catholic Church to bring about the canonization in recognition of introducing Christianity into the U.S. It was with some interest, therefore, that the author looked for conclusions upon this subject that had been reached by the last to enter upon this field of inquiry.

The article presents political updates of the U.S., as of October 8, 1891. The official announcement of politician James G. Blaine continued invalidism which is made by U.S. President Benjamin Harrison in his message to the Dominion authorities, postponing for that reason the reciprocity conference which had been arranged for October 12, calls attention to the remarkable conduct of the Secretary of State in holding on to an office the duties of which he is unable to discharge. Another update, one thing may be considered as settled by U.S. President's announcement, and that is that Blaine's nomination as the Republican candidate next year is entirely out of the question.

The article focuses on the laws and legislation related to the issuance of passport to citizens in the U.S. An act of the U.S. Congress originally passed in 1866 merely provides that the Secretary of State may issue passports under rules and regulations made by the President. The Secretary, through the Passport Division, handles these matters under an Executive Order from the President which empowers him to deny passports or restrict their scope and use in accordance with the "best interests" of the U.S. Thus, the Passport Division has the power except in the rare instance when, owing to the political pull of the applicant or other reason, a higher official overrules it.

Oregon is the most solidly Republican of all the Western states. Although the witch-hunting hysteria has been particularly virulent along the West Coast, in Oregon a person applying for a position of public trust still need swear only the time-honored allegiance to the constitutions of the state and nation. This happy state of affairs is due in the main to the influence of one man, ex-Governor Charles A. Sprague, publisher of the newspaper "Oregon Daily Statesman," in Salem. Sprague is a Republican who has abandoned his party's predominant isolationism to support the foreign policy of the Democratic Administration. If the Republicans look westward for a Vice-Presidential nominee, they could do worse than pick this sixty-four-year-old publisher, often called "the conscience of Oregon.

Presents letters to the editor referencing issues and topics discussed in the previous issued of the journal "The Nation." Discussion on the vacancy in the U.S. Supreme Court; Comments on the tariff reforms in the U.S.; Comments on civil services reforms in the U.S.

Reports on efforts of Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Herbert Denenberg in solving issues related to various insurance policies offered in the state. Need for legislation in the state to standardize health and accident policies; Importance of information related to insurance policy for public; Disadvantages as well as advantages of various policies.

This article focuses on political developments in the United States, as of May 2, 1987. The odious annual ritual of the Pulitzer Prizes was unusually squalid this gear, by reason of the award given to Charles Krauthammer for commentary. His columns, both in the journals "The Washington Post," and "The New Republic," are distillations of the contempt for national and international law that has characterized the United States President Ronald Reagan's administration. Lucia Annunziata's cover article on the Democrats and the Arias plan in published in the journal "The Nation," for April 18 was grimly interesting for what it revealed about The Nation's political points of reference-in effect, its own relationship to power.

The article explains that U.S. President Ronald Reagan is caught between principles and politics in the issues of international trade and balance of trade. Efforts to reduce the country's trade deficits with Europe, Japan, and developing countries could jeopardize Reagan's foreign policy objectives toward a free trade zone and a liberalized international trading system.

The article discusses American politics. During the past two weeks, the U.S. Administration has managed to survive a crisis in morale. The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had about made up his mind to move left and was uncertain only about the timing. What determined the timing was a confluence of factors-the unemployment figures, the down-at-the-heel demoralization of the departments, the lull in press and radio, the need for catapulting statesman Robert Jackson into national prominence if he was to be available for the New York governorship race, the reassembling of the U.S. Congress and the need for action before the tories could get to brooding again over the ills that business has suffered.

The article reports on the economic developments in the U.S. in 1967. I.W. Abel is taking over as chairman of the economic policy committee of the AFL-CIO. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that California and two natural gas companies were potentially affected by a proposed merger case settlement between the U.S. government and El Paso Natural Gas Co. The economic strategists of the U.S. government are concerned about the decline in sales of automobiles, household appliances and television sets.

Presents letters to the editor related to various socio-political issues in the U.S. Publication of the book "Life of Paine," about the life of writer Thomas Paine; Establishment of a non-sectarian School of Theology at Boulder, Colorado; Death of an American sculptor Edmund L. Stewardson.

Focuses on the possible electoral deadlock that will be created due to the favourism for Progressive Party leader Robert Marion La Follette among voters in the U.S. Reason behind the preference by every voter for a straight majority for La Follette; Division of interests in the country, between the democratic elements predominant in the West and the autocratic and propertied elements of the northern and middle sea board states; Possibility that the country will have a President elected either by a coalition of conservative Republican and Democratic votes, or by a coalition of the radicals of both parties with the La Follette group.

Attorney General Francis Biddle's speech on Columbus Day, with its announcement that the six hundred thousand Italian citizens living in the U.S. were no longer to be regarded as "enemy aliens," was an act of grand strategy. Once more it has been demonstrated that the best diplomacy is courageous generosity, at least in a conflict, which is not a war of nation against nation but of progress against black re-action, of human aspiration against brutality. It is a long time since anything has so deeply stirred the five million American citizens of Italian parentage and forty-five million Italians in Italy. Only one other event, occurring a few weeks earlier, created in Italy a sensation nearly as profound.

U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle made the first good stroke in political warfare against Benito Mussolini when he took Italians in the U.S. out of ranks of enemy aliens. The U.S. has now told Italians all over the world that American democracy is fighting Mussolini and Fascists and not the Italian people. This news will have tremendous impact not only in Italy but also in South America, where there are two million people of Italian extraction. But in the Biddle's decision, though in itself it must be warmly applauded, will have harmful consequences if it is not coupled with another measure.

Two prominent Democrats who were much in evidence four years ago seem more inclined to play the part of Br'er Rabbit in the present national campaign. The political leader George Harvey, from all accounts, is having a very good time as a spectator of the passing show, letting Harvey do the political work for the family, though in opposition to his prime favorite of 1912, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The journalist Henry Watterson, is less frequenuy seen on the lyceum stage now than when he was younger. At the time when he was most in demand, he used to suffer tortures from nervousness on facing an audience; but before he had proceeded far he would have every soul in the hall in touch with him, and could move them as he chose, to laughter, to enthusiasm, or to tears.

Novelist Richard Wright came to Chicago, Illinois because there was no other place for him to go. He came as a stranger, lived as a stranger, and he left without looking back. "Whenever I leave that town I feel as though I had been in a three-day nightmare," he wrote from Mexico in 1940. Yet his impact upon Chicago has been more enduring than that of any merchant prince, mayor or newspaper owner. For his impact was not upon City Hall but upon the city's conscience; and therefore upon the conscience of humanity.

Reports on the amendments of the proposed Energy Bill in the U.S. Senate. Troubles in getting votes on a few of the 300 amendments that were pending on the bill; Move of the Democrats to hold a series of votes on controversial judgeship nominees; Creation of a Conference Committee; Opportunity to write a completely new bill in the conference.

Announces the reduction of bankcard processing fees to Shell and Texaco retailers and wholesalers by the Houston-based Shell Oil Products US and Motiva Enterprises LLC in the U.S. Attributions of the reduction as a response to the settlement of the recent class-action lawsuit involving MasterCard and Visa; Opportunity to reduce the companies' bankcard processing fees; Target date for the publishing of the rates for the calendar year 2004.

Announces the upgrade of Greensboro, North Carolina-based Gilbarco Veeder-Root of its ISO Registration from ISO 9001:1994 to ISO 9001:2000 in the U.S. Responsibility that comes along with an ISO accreditation; Principles behind the assessment; Satisfaction expressed by Gary Masse, president and group executive for Gilbarco Veeder-Root, on the support received from customers and associates.

The article announces the appointments of several executives in the U.S. including Charles J. Scott as director of marketing at Combustion Engineering Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut, Harry Berns as director of corporate creative services at Beatrice Foods Co. in Chicago, Illinois and Kenneth L. Schlegel as director of advance and promotion at Ziebart International Corp. in Troy, Michigan.