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...their traditional field of property taxes. In some states the trend has reached down to the local governments, with the result that the residents of some cities, e.g., St. Louis and Louisville, are now paying three in come taxes - federal, state and local. The Eisenhower Administration has made fit ful starts, but has had no success, in an effort to draw clear lines between the tax fields that should be harvested by federal, state and local governments...
...chief of the Vice and Narcotic Brigade. A Parisian cop since 1925, "Loulou" Métra, a mild, tactful and polite fellow, had an insidious talent for winning the confidence of shady characters. The labyrinths of Parisian vice being what they are, Loulou was also skill ful at extricating prominent citizens from embarrassing situations. Once he got the delicate task of recovering a royal jewel impulsively presented by a visiting for eign prince to a professional homosexual...
Weeks ago, Churchill had told his faith ful squire Anthony Eden that he intended to retire soon after the Queen's return from her round-the-world tour. He was mortally tired; he still had his great moments, but the aftereffects of a stroke last year had left him often unfit to conduct the daily business of government...
...George Abbott's direction, the show completely skirts tedium and glides from dialogue to song without quash of gears on diminished quality. The further assets of a choice east headed by Rosalind Russell and handsome settings by Raonl Pene du Bois make Wonderful Town a seek and thoroughly delight ful show...
...time is ripe for a change. In seven years the U.S. has poured out $38 billion under the Marshall Plan, EGA and a hand ful of other plans, often badly and wastefully administered, which were designed to put the economies of Europe on their feet. As 1952 ended, they were on their feet, but the legs of some were shaky. The U.S. firmly believed that a free flow of profitable trade between the nations of the West was as great a bulwark to peace as arms. Somehow the unhealthy gap between U.S. exports and imports, that drained for eign nations...