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...probe was not likely to prove a real hardship for the ex-President. His children have already reached Paris, and he is expected to set up housekeeping with them there within the month. Bank accounts in Boston, Miami, Paris and Geneva should enable him to live in the manner he has become accustomed...
...Senator Harry F. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, says that there has been a temporary loss of $5 billion in revenue since Korea because of defense fast tax write-offs. But many economists do not think that accelerated depreciation for peacetime industry would be a hardship for the Government. During the past six years, despite the fact that industry was granted tax write-offs on $37 billion in plants, the increased production and business activity actually boosted the Government's overall take in corporate taxes from $11 billion a year to $20 billion a year...
...cutbacks were not made in the name of new look strategy, but of old-fashioned hardship. "If the burden is too great to carry, We cannot go on carrying it," said Chancellor of the Exchequer Macmillan. His remarks were directed primarily at thriving Germany, which is spending only a modest $280 million on its lagging defense, and has threatened to stop all support payments for the four British divisions in Germany after May 1957. The British taxpayer, Macmillan made clear, was fed up with Germany's letting Britain carry Germany's defenses. Since Germany had to confess that...
Painter Corot did not have to sell his work. The bright, sunny sky he kept throughout his career was well justified by his easy life. Supported by an allowance from his parents (a successful Paris modiste and her bookkeeping husband), the simplehearted, cheerful and generous Corot never knew hardship, was free to travel to Rome, voyage about France, take in Switzerland and Holland. His prime subject was landscape, which he recorded in masses of clear-cut light and shadow just as he saw it. The result, well illustrated by his early study of the Norman port of Honfleur (opposite...
Tyranny, bloodshed and hardship are no newcomers to Sadovy. Born in Czechoslovakia, he tied his home in 1939 at 14 to avoid German forced-labor camps, later joined a Polish unit of the British Eighth Army. He fought up Italy's Adriatic coast as a company photographer, found that the only way to get good pictures was to stay ahead of the infantry...