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Departing Business. Indonesia's economy is being slowly strangled by in ept government policies. While badly needing and openly crying for foreign investment, the government is slowly forcing out firms already in business. Most planters (tea, rubber) say they are not even bothering to replant. General Motors closed its assembly plant at Tandjong Priok a few weeks ago after 27 years of operation. Philco Radio and Britain's vast Imperial Chemical Industries are expected to follow quite soon. At Tandjong Priok, the capital's seaport, costly prefabricated school buildings are rusting on wharves because someone has forgotten...
...president, Businessman-Educator Wilson Compton: "Since the council announced the opening of its New York offices last month, it has been swamped with inquiries about the need for helping educational programs." Fully two-thirds of the inquiries have come from corporations, which can make scholarship contributions under EPT this year for as little as 18½ on the dollar...
...know a little man both ept and ert. And intro? extra? No, he's just a vert. Sheveled and couth and kempt, pecunious, ane; His image trudes upon the ceptive brain...
...Reed did give an all-important inch. Right after the session adjourned without a vote, he acknowledged that he would call another meeting of his committee, after all. He would do it in his own time-probably July 8-and it would not be a meeting about EPT. But Dan Reed knew, as Joe Martin knew, that once the Ways & Means Committee was in session, any member of the committee could move that EPT be taken up. And Joe Martin had enough committee votes in his pocket to send EPT to the floor over Dan Reed's unchanging...
From all appearances, Martin's leadership had won the day. If things went as most Congressmen thought they would, Joe Martin's victory was one for congressional history. His unprecedented move through the Rules Committee had saved both the EPT bill and congressional precedent in the only way they could have been saved together. And he had wound up so strong that he did not have to use his strength in a rock-crushing, party-splitting vote...