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...keeps declining year after year-but the number of Agriculture Department employees keeps right on growing. In the House of Representatives last year, Michigan Republican Robert Griffin jokingly offered an amendment to ensure that "the total number of employees in the Department of Agriculture shall at no time exceed the number of farmers in America." It lost-but only...
...more people whose incomes exceed $1,000,000 a year than at any time since the 1929 stock market crash. So revealed the Internal Revenue Service last week. Its 1960 statistics, the latest compiled, show that 306 Americans had an adjusted gross income of more than $1,000,000 v. 513 in 1929 (and a mere 20 in 1932). The bulk of the wealth is in New York City, which had 87 millionaires-in-one-year; Philadelphia had 59, Chicago 38, and San Francisco and Boston 25 each...
Teachers give whatever courses they like, (there are over 200) and enrollment for each course may not exceed 15. The class meets once a week for either an hour or 90 minutes. In addition, each student has a bi-weekly half hour "conference" with the course instructor, during which they discuss some topic suggested by the course, and about which the student will write a comprehensive course paper...
...Geneva pact last year that guaranteed the "neutrality" of Savang's lethargic little kingdom. The first stop had been Moscow, and the Russians showered gifts, including slick Chaika (Seagull) limousines, on the King and his bland, bowing Laotian entourage. President Kennedy did not exert himself to exceed the Russians: he gave the King a desk set and an autographed photo of himself...
...increased as much as 450%. Import duties on most raw materials, machinery and manufactured goods will be boosted from 15% to 55%. All of India's taxpayers will have to deposit up to 3% of their after-tax incomes in government savings accounts; businesses whose after-tax incomes exceed 6% of their capital value must pay a 50% tax on all subsequent profits. All basic household goods, cloth, food and cooking fuels will be hit with new taxes. Only exceptions: sugar, shoes, rice and matches...