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...Internal Revenue Service took a second look at nudist societies, whose dues have hitherto been taxexempt. It decided that they belong in the category of "social, athletic or sporting" clubs. As such, 20% of their dues must be paid in taxes...
...account of Churchill's defeat by the Labor Party in the elections of 1945. Churchill went to bed "in the belief that the British people would wish me to continue my work . . . However, just before dawn, I woke suddenly with a sharp stab of almost physical pain. A hitherto subconscious conviction that we were beaten broke forth and dominated my mind. All the pressure of great events, on and against which I had mentally so long maintained my 'flying speed,' would cease and I should fall." By noon of that day, the election results confirmed his premonition...
...morning last week the Russian state radio canceled its regular programs, and for the next three hours droned out details of a great Moscow retreat. It was a 25,000-word document written by Russia's new No. 2 man, Nikita Khrushchev and it told the hitherto hidden story of Soviet Communism's failure to provide food for its subject peoples. Items...
...without our assistance. We regret this the more since we have acted for so long as your sole representatives in this country, to our mutual satisfaction . . . Should you be thinking of paying us a visit on the Continent ... we shall give your emissaries the same attention as we have hitherto...
...torrent of emotion, which education opposes-the process which fills vague but ancient war-cries with whatever content the moment's feelings and interests dictate. "Free Enterprise," for example, or "The People versus Special Interests" (often coupled with demands for high tariffs or more subsidy for a hitherto neglected special interest) are forever confusing the nation's deepest traditions and vitiating attempts at calm study. All the vocational training possible, all the calling to mind of obscure statistics, are by themselves worthless, for partisans of fighting faiths will take what serves their cause and find reason for denying the rest...