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...Speaker Sam Rayburn, tacked" their tax reduction (estimated cost: $2.1 billion) on to a bill to extend the badly needed revenues (estimated at $2.8 billion) from excises and the 52% corporation-tax rate. Explained New York Timesman Arthur Krock: "Instead of bringing up the $20-per-head handout bill separately on its own merits, the Rayburn plan is to attach it to the revenue maintenance measure so that by a presidential veto the $2.8 billion would be lost to the Treasury. In other words the Democratic fee for preserving $2.8 billion has been fixed at $2.1 billion...
...last reel of the film is given to a fine piece of natural comedy. The moviemakers make pets of two giant groupers who lumber about the sea floor after them with the doggy devotion of submarine St. Bernards, begging with śoulful looks for a handout. The color throughout is poetic and covers an amazing range. It is a pity that the commentary is bad Swinburne, and the musical score banal, like woozy echoes of Tchaikovsky in a conch...
...More startling than the excellent exposition of the meat of the Oppenheimer case in TIME, June 28, was the box preceding it under the title "The Handout." TIME really outdid itself in this expression of journalistic candor, for the professional intellectuals in journalism have loudly boasted for years about reporting in the "public interest." Now we see an enormous admission that some highly placed typescribblers permitted themselves to accept handouts from a prejudiced side of a highly important public controversy and thus to distort the substance of a highly important decision. And lazy editors followed the lines handed...
...impersonal conglomeration of plants. Giant Du Pont is one of those that has realized the need for a more personal approach, has made President Crawford Greenewalt its public face and spokesman. On the other hand, there are many corporate executives who still feel that when they have issued a handout to the press, they have done their duty. They make no attempt to make themselves available in press conferences, thus are often misunderstood or misrepresented by politicos or labor leaders...
...last week, without trumpet call or handout, the plan was under way. Leaders of Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are preparing to visit Pakistan. Shortly, the U.S. is expected to approve the first arms shipments to Pakistan...