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...social objectives rather than on economic objectives, to the detriment of business activity and employment." Most businessmen recognized that to ram through reform, Kennedy would have to have benefits to confer to make up for the reductions in tax write-offs and tightening of tax loopholes. Drawled R. P. Baxter, president of the Rio Grande National Life Insurance Co.: "I think President Kennedy wants to hold Out so he'll be in a better position to bargain when the full tax revision bill comes around next year. And, man, do we need that!" If there is now some heightened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Wait Till Next Year | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

Nehru retorted that Fisher and his colleague, Richard R. Baxter, professor of Law, were "ignorant of the facts of the world...

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Indian Envoy Attributes Seizure Of Goa to Failure of World Law | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

...Baxter, however, argued that India had no right to use force, even when Portugal refused to come to terms. "Stability may, on occasion, be more important than justice," he maintained...

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Indian Envoy Attributes Seizure Of Goa to Failure of World Law | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

Answering Nehru's charge that international law was written by Europeans without regard for the "different conceptions of justice" held by the poorer nations, Baxter pointed out that India had agreed to support the Charter of the U.N. He added that Article I of the Charter forbade unilateral action of the sort India took...

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Indian Envoy Attributes Seizure Of Goa to Failure of World Law | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

...doesn't really matter. As played by Capucine, the heroine has looked dead all along. By contrast, the other members of the cast (notably Anne Baxter and Jane Fonda) positively seethe with vitality. The script, which owes almost nothing but its title and its setting to the novel by Nelson (The Man with the Golden Arm) Algren, was written by five writers in succession, and it reads like a round-robin, fold-over-and-add-a-line letter: "You certainly are an unusual girl to find in this sort of place . . . Darling, I love enough for two . . . My father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: No Better Than It Should Be | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

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