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...pays the Swiss government a flat and fairly nominal yearly sum, and no additional income taxes. He has never lost his penny-conscious regard for money. In fact, although he lives in a country twice as thrifty as Scotland, he is celebrated locally as the biggest tightwad in the canton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personalities: Charlie Chaplin (Oxon.) | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...principal customer. After the commissioning of the new range, less than four years ago, the PMR's officials began making beachheads on Pacific islands for tracking stations and training headquarters. By last week 13,000 persons manned the PMR outposts, from Elmendorf A.F.B. in Alaska to faraway Canton Island, more than 4,000 miles from California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: The Big Bird Sanctuary | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

Wesley W. Horton '64, of Quincy House and Canton, Conn., was selected as next year's squash manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Viegand Named Squash Captain | 3/14/1962 | See Source »

Meanwhile, at Potsdam, N.Y., first-seeded Clarkson meets Providence (8). Colby (3) skates against R.P.I. (6) at Me., and St. Lawrence (4) takes on Boston College (5) at Canton, N.Y. Semi-final and final rounds will be Friday and Saturday nights at the Boston Arena...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Varsity, Army Open ECAC Hockey Tourney at Watson | 3/6/1962 | See Source »

...Communist Party and were married. In 1924, after stopping off in Moscow, Li and his wife headed back to China, and, at the party's orders, went their separate ways-Tsai Chang to Shanghai to agitate among the workers in the cotton mills, Li Fu-chun to Canton to become an instructor at Chiang Kai-shek's Whampoa Military Academy, where Mao Tse-tung was briefly chief of propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Loss of Man | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

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