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Many businessmen consider the Administration's plan to collect taxes on profits earned overseas a severe blow to U.S. business abroad (see BUSINESS). Others are holding off business decisions until the future of trade regulations is clear, or until they see the fate of the Administration's depreciation allowance bill. Moreover, there is a suspicion that the Administration tends to penalize bigness. Said Albert L. Nickerson, chairman of Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc. "It seems to me illogical to 'think big' in terms of such activities as economic competition from Russia, space exploration and the conquest...
...since the great Swiss, Karl Barth, may still be in the country June 14, his name is a sound one. Rumor also spreads word of Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike. Among foreign diplomats Herve Alphand, Ambassador of France, seems a more than probable choice. Douglas MacArthur, unable to collect his degree on the last occasions of its awarding, will hopefully manage to come this year...
...Department of Agriculture levied penalties of $554,162.71 against Estes for growing cotton on federal acreage allotments that had allegedly been obtained illegally. Since Estes is in receivership, the department plans to collect the penalties by deducting them from storage costs of Government grain still in Estes elevators. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman denied that Estes received any favors (Agriculture had been accused of giving Estes a break by asking a 2?-per-bu. bond-the lowest possible rate required of grain-storage operators). Said Freeman: "The Government hasn't lost a dime . . . Estes hasn't got a cent...
Merely to collect and compile all the data is a tremendous task. The bulk of the reports from the tests already fired -most of them in the form of magnetic tape or squiggly lines on film or paper-is converging first on Christmas Island, where the Atomic Energy Commission has a team of experts ready to make a quick preliminary search for scientific hints that may have an immediate effect on their handling of later tests. Eventually, the data will be sent to the birthplace of the bombs-Los Alamos and Livermore laboratories-for more detailed study...
...Angeles hearings, scheduled to begin Tuesday, represent the first time the Committee has traveled outside of Washington to collect evidence since May 1960. At that time its hearings in San Francisco touched off student riots...