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...Ferreé brothers' fondest hope is that their sons-there are four of them-will some day run the family businesses not from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico but from the 51st state of the U.S. Statehood for Puerto Rico would more than double the corporate tax bill that the Ferrés pay under the Commonwealth, but they argue that it would attract many new industries and set off a new Puerto Rican boom by removing any danger that the island may some day be caught up in Caribbean turmoil. Says Luis Ferré: "If you can sell...
...much as any other man to ensure the success of the Manhattan Project, once the first bomb was built, he would not wait to see the first test explosion at Alamogordo. For the rest of his life, all nuclear weapons were objects of horror to him. His fondest hope was to find a way to abolish them...
Foreign aid is in trouble again. Mr. Passman made heavier cuts than usual in Congressional allocations, and made them stick; Mr. Bowles, one of the program's fondest defenders, accused it of failing to require sufficiently high standards of planning; and now the agency director is about to pack his briefcase and return to New York, where no Congressman will ever come to shatter his sleep...
...Republican Party's fondest hope has been to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1962 elections. To turn the trick, the G.O.P. needs to take 44 seats away from incumbent Democrats. This calls for a landslide which almost no observer sees in the offing. Most pre-Cuba guesses gave the G.O.P. a gain of about a dozen seats. What Cuba did to this estimate, few are willing...
...rate is only about one-twelfth of 1% on volume-a rate that compares favorably with the losses sustained by banks. Competition holds down factors' charges to around 1% to 2% of the value of the accounts they factor. For higher earnings, factors look to increased volume. Their fondest hope is that President Kennedy's new trade expansion bill will spur new interest in European sales among small and medium-sized U.S. companies. Already factors are planning overseas operations to handle accounts in lire, kroner, pounds, Deutsche marks, francs and just about every other currency in which accounts...