Word: com
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Give the President power to juggle rates within each class of goods (e.g., earthenware and glassware) without changing the total revenue collected. This would simplify customs red tape and reduce arguments over definitions of com modities. The power could be used to ease the rates on high-duty and small-volume imports by raising rates slightly on low-duty and large-volume imports...
There is much, beyond the pulse of the story, to enhance the court-martial setup. The charge against Maryk of seizing com mand during a typhoon on the ground that Queeg was mentally ill - is an un hackneyed one. Again, Maryk's lawyer, Lieut. Barney Greenwald, would far rather be prosecuting than defending his client - and indeed wins him an acquittal by not defending him. Instead, he attacks others: first he twists a fatuous psychiatrist's tail, then twists the knife in an emotionally frayed and rattled Queeg. And there is the final celebration scene, a sort...
...HOWLETT FIJI VISITORS' BUREAU SUVA Extravagant Devotion? Sir: The Church of England Newspaper has labeled as "rank heresy" the implications it found in our Holy Father's prayer [com posed for the opening of the Marian Year -TIME, Dec. 28]. If the implications were true, it would be heresy. The Pope himself would be the first to denounce idolatry of Mary...
...recent experience of my wife and myself in Tucson, Ariz. We do feel that we were able to carry through our work there unsinged by the flames of the "burning deck" and reassuringly warmed by the support of press and public . . . Out of fairness to Congressman Velde and his com mittee, we are trying to keep straight the fact "cleared" that by we his were letter not, to in us. any The legal commit sense, tee, as we understand it, is not set up with any authority to give anyone a technically definitive "clearance." What we had from Mr. Velde...
...Actress. Ruth Gordon's hit com edy about stagestruck adolescence; with Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright, Jean Simmons (TIME...