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Profitable Incentive. Corporations will not collect the full benefit of the $2.4 billion drop in corporate taxes for a few years,* but the cut is only one of the factors encouraging them to spend. Profits after taxes have risen from $21.8 billion in 1961 to $27.2 billion in 1963. There has been an even sharper increase in the amount of cash in corporate coffers, since companies are writing off more income in the form of depreciation expenses under the liberalized depreciation rules passed in 1962. At the same time, rising orders for basic materials, industrial machines and other durable goods...
...handsomest fringe benefit in U.S. business is the stock option, a corporate incentive that enables a good many executives to make fortunes beyond their salaries. Like a warrant or a "call," the option is a device that enables a man to buy stock at a fixed price long after the shares have risen above that price. Last week's tax bill removes some of the glamour from the stock option, but will not easily stop the growth of an incentive that is now used by two-thirds of the nation's public companies...
Undergraduates were to have their choice of two courses in the Natural Sciences, one centered around physics and the other, apparently for the benefit of those who had difficulty dealing with quantitative methods, around biology. Both courses were to include reading in original sources and to attempt to place the problems and principles with which they dealt in their appropriate historical setting...
Harold J. Berman, professor of Law, will speak on "Soviet Law, Tourism and an American Prisoner" at a benefit for Peter Landerman, a 22-year-old student now being held in the USSR, at 7:45 p.m. tonight in Burr...
Tempting Models. Appliance makers benefit from the same factors that have created the unexpectedly prolonged boom in the auto industry: record rates of personal income and housing construction, the nation's desire to trade up to fancier models, and a strong replacement market. The two-car family increasingly has its counterpart in the multi-appliance family. Well over 1,500,000 households now are cooled by more than one air conditioner, and about 11 million families have a big TV set in the living room and portables scattered around the house. More than half...