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...Liberia, Panama, Bermuda or the Bahamas. In the single year of 1960, the undistributed earnings of U.S. subsidiaries in such tax havens increased by 100% to $122 million. But businessmen argue that passing the new tax bill to get at the tax havens would amount to rolling out a cannon to kill a mouse. The Government would gain perhaps $85 million a year in tax revenues, but in doing so, say the businessmen, it would discourage U.S. firms from plowing most of their overseas earnings back into expansion...
...Cannon to First. Both are uncommonly nimble and uncommonly sturdy-equally adept at knocking down vicious line drives with their chests, or charging home plate to scoop up a dying bunt. And both have the kind of 90-mm. arm to make the long throw to first. But the talents do not stop there...
...opened by heads of state, President Kennedy last week pressed a golden key in Palm Beach that sparked the inaugural festivities of Seattle's Century 21 Exposition, the first world's fair to be held in the U.S. in more than 20 years. Amid the sound of cannon, whistles, sirens and church bells, the excited crowd at the opening ceremony was unaware that an Air Force jet fighter plane participating in a salute to the fair had crashed nearby. Before the fair is over. Seattle expects to play host to 10 million visitors who, officials estimate, will spend...
Fifteen fun-loving freshmen staged an ingenious prank last night. It went something like this: these here humorous people snuck into the Union (after it was closed and locked for the night!) and unscrewed a tremendous, ugly cannon barrel from its base, somewhere in the basement of that building. Then, after tremendous exertions, they lugged it upstairs and (can you believe it?) propped it up diagonally in the door to the dining room. Well, everyone was tremendously amused, you may be assured. They all laughed immoderately...
...Little, Brown ($6.50). The Revolutionary War often was fought with tactics that were quaintly old-fashioned or grimly futuristic. During the battle for Fort Mercer, N.J., in 1777, the Americans ran short of ammunition, and soldiers were offered a gill of rum (4 oz.) to retrieve 32-lb. British cannon balls that had fallen short of the mark. U.S. guns then lobbed them back at the British. Near Petersburg, Va., in the closing days of the war, the British captured 700 Negro slaves who had caught smallpox, and deliberately sent them among the rebels as an experiment in germ warfare...