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...world." Venezuelan law lets the foreigner operate freely, and U.S. firms, which own two-thirds of Venezuela's $2.3 billion foreign investment, take their profits out in dollars, with no red tape. Yanquis residing in Venezuela pay no U.S. income taxes, and the Venezuelan tax is downright benign. Not until a salary reaches a theoretical $8,400,000 a year would the government take the maximum bite of 28%; a man earning $60,000 a year pays only $1,800. There is no tax on stock dividends...
...last week, the state of Missouri and the U.S. Government established the first national monument ever dedicated to a U.S. Negro: a 210-acre memorial to George Washington Carver, who was born a slave and became one of the foremost of American agricultural scientists. Even as an old man, benign and toothless, white-cropped Scientist Carver never stopped his inspired puttering in the laboratory he developed at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute...
...government, but abstaining almost wholly from campaign promises. With a powerful, entrenched party behind him, his own unmatched personal popularity, and an enviable record of producing both social services (e.g., old-age pensions, baby bonuses) and budgetary surpluses, St. Laurent could probably afford his leisurely air of benign self-confidence...
...Henry Major) Tomlinson is a gentle ironist of 80 with the face of a benign gnome surprised at his own meditations. In his day, this mild Londoner has been bracketed with Conrad as a great writer of the sea, with Thoreau as a stubborn searcher for truth. Beginning with his first book (The Sea and the Jungle) in 1912, a whole generation of critics gushed over his prose style, and not without reason. It was a vehicle that could take a reader anywhere and leave plain tracks in the memory for a long time to come...
...Chou En-lai proposed the Korean talks and Molotov seconded them. Beria publicly redressed the "error" of the doctors' purges. Voroshilov announced the price cuts. Such popular gestures are the kind that might be presumed useful in building up Malenkov as the first among his peers and the benign father of all the Russias. Perhaps they add up to an essentially different conclusion: that Stalin's heirs have so far contrived to keep Malenkov from achieving the top role he must play if he is really to succeed Stalin...