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Family Ties. In Peiping, China, 1) Wang Leihsiang had her mother arrested as an opium smoker; 2) her sister accused her brother's wife of adultery; 3) the brother's wife killed the two sisters with an ax, hanged herself, left a note explaining to her husband that she had planned on killing...
...flurried, waning minutes of the session, the Senate Appropriations Committee repaired some of John Taber's ax-work, boosting interim aid to $570 million, occupation expenses to the original $490 million. When the bill went to conference, the Senate committeemen were adamant on providing something for China. Said one House conferee: "They just sat and looked and waited, and if we hadn't agreed to the China money, we wouldn't have had any Christmas." The weary wrangling ended in the usual compromise: $522 million for France, Italy and Austria, a token $18 million for China...
...Lowered Ax. The merger would also make possible "administrative economies." They had already begun. Less new talent would be hired and there would be no pay increases for stars. Such a policy had long been recommended by Rank's penny-wise chief adviser, ex-Accountant John Davis, 40. In the past he had lost some tiffs to producers who put prestige before profit. Now profit-minded John Davis was the undisputed operating manager...
Tough, canny Mr. Cohu, World War I flyer and ex-board chairman of Northrop Aircraft Inc., lost no time in swinging his new broom-and his ax. He spent so much time flying from one TWA office to another that a TWA underling quipped: "The loneliest place in the company is the president's office in Kansas City...
...people are honestly harmed. If there are 400 thousand Communists in CRS or a million in France, they're Communists because they want to be--or they've legally voted that way--and they don't exactly like the idea of Communists in America getting the ax. On the other hand, they know that Republicans are not being tolerated in Russia, and not a few are critical...