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...sure, there are persuasive illustrations ad nauseum of the effect of the Mellon approach on U.S. economic history [TIME Oct. 3]. However, to show its full extent, one fact should be noted. In 1926 the federal gift tax was repealed and the federal estate tax was reduced significantly (except for John Garner, it would have been repealed). This abolition and reduction occurred primarily through the influence of one man, Andrew Mellon...
TIME deplores atomic "spine-chilling" but manages to give it a fling . . . Despite your statement that "it may be years before the food products of Bikini are safe" [TIME, Oct. 3], dozens of us have partaken daily of Bikini's coconuts and papaya, with full clearance from both radiochemist and radio-medical officer. For six weeks we swam daily in the "poisoned lagoon" and walked hip-deep by the hour in the "radioactive water." Poppycock ! Over two years ago the scientists reported that a man living for months on twice-A-bombed Bikini would be exposed to radioactivity roughly...
...these terms of aloof friendship, Pandit Nehru set out to see the U.S. He got the red-carpet treatment, full of pomp, plush and protocol. It began with a night at Blair House as the guest of President Truman, two state dinners, a trip to Mount Vernon, tea with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Then came a quiet Sunday visit to Hyde Park to place a wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave, a ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan. At the end of six days he was already beginning to feel overwhelmed. Said Pandit Nehru, smiling: "No one should...
...movie's admirals is that they intend to carry the war to the Japanese homeland; this never happens in the film, and in the actual war the Army Air Forces did some bombing too. If the movie settles the interservice conflict for you, there is a recruiting van full of bluejackets parked in front of the Metropolitan Theater...
...past the tower, Vag heard the church clock finish out its little four-phrase tune, and then ring twice. That for the kickoff. The next swallow was easier. He reached a glass out of the bookcase, filled it half-full, and gulped it down. This was better, and he repeated the process. Then he thought of the tickets in his pocket. Vag paused for a moment, watching a leaf spiral down past his window, then ran for the closet and grabbed his coat. He sprinted down the stairs and started across the quad, running easily, with the bottle carefully cradled...