Prices: The Great Aluminum Rattle

Washington has watched with in creasing apprehension lately as a series of litt'e price increases has crept across the U.S. economy. Businessmen have wondered just how lonq Lyndon John son would let this inflationary trend proceed unchallenged, even if attacking it would mean some cost to the good will that he has built up among them.

Last week they got their answer — but in a manner so indirect and ambiguous that it took the nation a week to fathom what the President's real feelings and intentions were. Convinced that one of John...