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...abroad from all taxes on their overseas trading operations, removed some unpopular domestic levies, e.g., the 1955 "pots and pans" tax and the "Suez shilling" on gasoline, lowered others and granted graduated income-tax exemptions for children to help their parents pay higher school bills. But Thorneycroft's boldest move was to single out for relief the 300,000 Britons-mostly engineers, executives, scientists-who earn more than ?2,000 ($5,600) a year and therefore pay a surtax on top of their regular income tax. It was the first break surtax payers have had since 1920. Said Thorneycroft...
...whose preferred stockholders were due $106 million in dividend arrears. In short order, Deramus trimmed the Katy's payrolls, ordered economies in everything from telephone calls to recordkeeping, even abolished his public-relations department at the St. Louis headquarters. Last week Railroader Deramus took the boldest step yet to cut costs...
...boldest and most widely read newspapers behind the Iron Curtain today are published in Poland, whose newsmen in recent months have refused to serve up the party-line pap that passes for reporting in every other Communist society. Instead, Warsaw's dailies and literary weeklies bitterly attacked Russia and Poland's Communist Party for the miseries of everyday existence in postwar Poland, thus played a leading part in bringing the Gomulka government to power. During the Hungarian uprisings, Nowa Kultura (New Culture), a literary weekly published by the Writers' Union, and the Communist youth organ, Po Prostu...
...election campaign moved quietly and placidly towards its climax this week the U.S. was suddenly confronted by the boldest, blackest headlines since Korea. Beneath three days of fog that sifted lightly across the Danube, the Communist satellite capital of Budapest (pop. 1,750,000) rang to the classic shouts of "Freedom of Speech!" "Freedom of Religion!" The answer, audible from the Baltic to the South China Sea, was the machine-gun fire of Communist T-54 tanks. Then, out of a deep night along the Israel-Egypt border, there sprang forth two spearheads of a regular Israeli army advance, lunging...
...Other papers were bolder. One dovetailed a story about "startling" but undisclosed evidence in the case of "25 deaths" at Eastbourne with another dispatch covering the doctor's testimony at the inquest where one of his patients was found to have taken an overdose of sleeping tablets. The boldest paper managed to tell much of the story-and even run a picture of the doctor-by a slick trick: it got the doctor's lawyers to approve a sympathetic story that named him as the victim of a malign whispering campaign-and managed to print many...