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...Meanwhile, Castello Branco is pursuing other quarry. It has long been a casual tradition among moneyed Brazilians to ignore income taxes or report only a fraction of their true earnings. Last year only 150,000 Brazilians bothered to file returns at all. Last week investigators were probing the 100 biggest evaders, whose declarations have been "out of line with ostensible evidences of wealth." They face jail sentences of up to two years...
...present call-ups of 45,000 monthly are only a fraction of the 450,000 called during the Korean war. But the Army is now expanding its standing manpower from 2.6 million to slightly over 2.9; and the Defense Department, according to officials in Washington, now plans to increase the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam...
...Vermonters can seldom be taken for granted. In last week's special election, Democrats not only failed to make the major gains they expected in the house; their strength even dropped a fraction to 23%. In the senate, Demo cratic membership fell from 43% to a mere 20%. Massachusetts-born Hoff, who was on a State Department tour of Europe and Asia for all but the last week of the campaign, called it a "horrendous defeat." Penny-wise Vermonters had plainly responded to G.O.P. National Committeewoman Consuelo Bailey's charge: "This Governor's been spending...
Perhaps a better lesson is that a fraction of the $2 billion in aid now being offered to Vietnam, a handful of the gestures of reform now being made, would have sufficed several years ago to turn this revolution into something very different...
...simple. The first is public demand. Even the Yugoslav government, not known for knuckling under to popular opinion in other spheres, canceled its scrubbing of what it calls Dennis, the Naughty Boy in the face of mounting protest. The second reason: the U.S. price is right, a small fraction of the cost of producing from scratch. Which is not to say that foreign syndication is a giveaway program. Estimated annual take on the part of U.S. packagers for foreign replay rights: $75 million; and many a show that was a disaster domestically, like The Reporter (killed by CBS last year...