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...jump from 30% to 50% on distributed business profits. He rejected left-wing demands for a soak-the-rich capital levy. Biggest surprise of all, he defied his fiery cabinet colleague Aneurin Bevan by proposing that the public pay half the cost of false teeth and spectacles, hitherto free under the National Health Service...
...professor, and find for the latter post a scholar of wide knowledge, preferably a layman, who represents the religious view without representing a particular sect, or even a particular religion. A course of this kind would round out the teaching of religion at Harvard by presenting it from a hitherto neglected point of view, and could therefore be a perfectly legitimate addition to the curriculum...
...eight months, the "flying egg beaters" plucked 1,700 wounded and stranded men off the battlefield, saving them from death or capture. Commanding officers have found helicopters a smooth, swift substitute for the jolting jeep for front-line tours. Last week the helicopters found another customer. The Army, hitherto restricted to small craft (under 4,000 pounds), got permission to fly the big copters, will form transport companies with 23 helicopters each, specially equipped to carry troops in amphibious, mountain and jungle warfare...
...fencing team slashed its way to a 17 to 10 victory over M.I.T.'s hitherto undefeated swordsmen last night at M.I.T. Captain Win Overholser took all three bouts with only one point scored against him. Eric Sollee was another three bout winner...
...Cleveland Museum is celebrating its 35th anniversary, the hard way, with a well-calculated buying spree. Since the first of the year, Cleveland has bought four Venetian masterpieces: Lotto's Portrait of a Nobleman, Veronese's The Annunciation, Tintoretto's magnificent Baptism of Christ, and a hitherto unknown Titian entitled Portrait of a Prelate. Put on exhibition last week, the four Venetians gave new luster to a museum that was already one of the nation's best...