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Berliners noted that, despite high-level peace parleys, the local Russians were being their usual selves. But experts in Russian behavior professed to detect a slight softening around the edges...
Canadians who had waited two years for the government to take another slice off their high-level wartime taxes got good news last week. In his budget speech, Finance Minister Doug Abbott announced that the government would reduce its revenue from income taxes by 32%. Accordingly, he took 750,000 taxpayers off the lists by raising the exemptions from $750 to $1,000 for a single person and from $1,500 to $2,000 for a married couple with no children.* For those who still had to pay, the rates were trimmed. The new rates and exemptions would be retroactive...
Last year the services attempted to end their fights at a pair of high-level conferences, with civilian and military leaders meeting at Key West in March and Newport in December to try and thrash out their differences. These meetings soon degenerated into horse-trading sessions, in which the Joint Chiefs worked out just enough of their problems to enable them to submit a budget to the President. The Navy finally got its long-desired 58,000 ton carrier, more or less as part of a deal in which the Air Force took over all strategic bombing and the Army...
...compete with the broader aims of he Committee. To organize the system too far might produce, as is the case in other school, "a lesser breed without the law," a general education faculty looked on disdainfully by their colleagues of the departments. Today's proposal guarantees the continuance of high-level instruction obtained by staffing GE from regular Faculty rolls...
...military) are helping. A group at the University of Chicago has discovered that pressure waves in the high atmosphere are different from those at lower levels. When the waves are comparatively short and fast-moving, they usually lead to nasty weather below. At M.I.T. and elsewhere, meteorologists are clocking high-level winds and trying to find out what makes them speed so fast. Most of the information comes from "sounding balloons," but a little is trickling in from rockets, which bring back important figures from 60 miles straight...