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...wonderful that it may be creating a strange new breed of U.S. expatriates. "I'd like to go back and live in the States," a musiu may sigh, thinking wistfully of the soft green hills of home. Then, more likely than not, his eyes harden a little and he adds: "But of course I couldn't face those taxes...
Housewives in six New England states were surprised last month to meet a new breed of bill collector-Internal Revenue Service agents, who traveled from door to door with a sometimes embarrassing question: Had the occupant paid his federal taxes? If the answer was yes, the canvassers asked for proof-a receipt, return or canceled check. If no evidence was available, the agents took down names & addresses to check against the service's records. If delinquency was admitted, the agents were happy to accept on-the-spot payments. Door-slammers were likely to be visited by another kind...
...ground. The first program was a painstaking, rather flat dramatization of an episode from Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith. Others have included The Man Who Liked Dickens, starring Claude Rains, a prettied-up version of Evelyn Waugh's story of a lost explorer held captive by an illiterate half-breed, and Mrs. Union Station, a farce starring June Havoc. The show may have better luck this week with Charles Ruggles in an adaptation of Richard Harding Davis' The Consul. The commercials plug a different Chrysler Corp. car each week...
...Central Park Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. and touched on the mission of politics: "The politics of any situation we get into is only the means by which we should seek to achieve the religious ends for which we are put here on this earth ... A nation which can breed atom bombs surely can breed atomic ideals. I say we must...
This is what has been done at Arco under the direction of Dr. Walter Zinn of the Argonne National Laboratory. The AEC has given few details, but the reactor certainly used new structural materials (such as zirconium) which absorb very few neutrons, leaving enough to breed an excess of plutonium. It must have been running long enough to prove that it actually "breeds...