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...repeatedly denounced the revolution as "undemocratic." Many Brazilians assumed that the government would trump up a charge to disqualify him. Instead, a state electoral court found a perfectly legal reason: Lott had thoughtlessly transferred his voting registration to another state. The opposition parties now seem set to pick a friendlier...
...little-known Manhattan Company named Lippincott & Margulies, Inc. was hired by the Government last week for what seems an impossible task: putting a friendlier face on the Internal Revenue Service. At first L. & M. will simplify the tax forms, rewrite the IRS's standard letters and redesign its office signs-but after that, almost anything can happen. Turned free, L. & M. might design a new shade of ink for tax bills (Affluence Green? Bankrupt Red?), or tell the IRS to change its name to something like Friendly Funding...
More Stability. The investment climate has become friendlier since it reached a low in 1962, when foreign investors took more capital out of Latin America than they put in. New U.S. investment rose from $64 million in 1963 to $175 million in the first nine months of last year, and is still climbing. The chief reason for the rise is an improvement in Latin America's political posture. Castro's influence has waned, and so have fears of Communist takeovers. More governments are moving toward stability. A rise in commodity prices last year helped commodity-dependent Latin American...
...neat theory was destroyed when the AEC announced a preliminary analysis. That report indicated that the Chinese test used "a fission device employing U-235." Unless the Russians in friendlier years got the Lop Nor bomb work started with a goodly amount of U-235, the Chinese must somehow have scraped up the electricity to make the stuff, or less likely, invented a new and better process...
...view of the fact that Cambodia has no border with North Viet Nam, only South Viet Nam. Apparently rebuffed by a mystified Ho Chi Minh, Sihanouk protested that Hanoi's Reds had been "as vague as the Anglo-Saxons." But that did not necessarily make him any friendlier toward the South Vietnamese delegates...