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Searching hard for an issue to hit headon, Edmund Muskie last week accused a list of big corporations of loop-holing their way out of all federal income taxes. Speaking in New Castle, Pa., Muskie named "eight giant corporations" that "paid no federal income taxes in one of the last two years." They were: Aluminum Co. of America, Allied Chemical, Bethlehem Steel, National Steel, Republic Steel, Standard Oil of Ohio, U.S. Steel and Westvaco Corp. Officers of the firms disputed Muskie's charges, and it was hard to tell who was right. Under current tax-reporting requirements, outsiders-even...
...haven't been specific enough. We haven't been sharp, clear, simple and hard-hitting. Take the radio spots. What I need is my voice speaking directly, crisply, precisely. My own preference for television is headon, me talking. To hell with the production business. Now the quality of the campaign has emerged in a clear-cut way. Before it was fuzzy. Now there's a feeling of relief that the fight is out in the open. There's a nice, clean feeling of being in a fight. In New Hampshire, the percentage game deprived...
...mutilating its rivals for years. Since 1970, two of the world's very biggest corporations, General Electric and RCA, have dropped out of computer manufacturing, each having lost more than $100 million to learn that IBM is hard to buck. But one gutsy company has hit the giant headon, sharply increased its own computer sales and firmly entrenched itself as No. 2 in the industry. The company is Minneapolis-based Honeywell...
Throughout, Wouk confronts great personages headon. His research has been massive; yet a sense of strain afflicts conversations with the likes of Hitler, Göring and Roosevelt. Did Wouk invent or acquire from some historical footnote that bit about the President's martinis? ("This is an excellent martini," Pug says to a beaming F.D.R. "It sort of tastes like it isn't there. Just a cold cloud.") Hitler's nervous little knee kick is familiar, but what about those "snatching, greedy fingers" as the Führer gobbles iced cakes at a reception? There...
...first phase of organization and staging hit-and-run attacks. So far the guerrillas in the captain's area of operations have lost about 50 men, and larger army attacks are expected. But the Mukti Bahini plan to mount ambushes and avoid meeting army firepower headon...