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...eighth floor, headquarters of the Communist Party's biggest propaganda machine, the Daily Worker (circ. 9,000). At exactly 1 p.m. the four men trooped into the Worker's dingy newsrooms, identified themselves to Office Manager Dorothy Robinson as U.S. Treasury tax agents, and presented a lien of $46,049 for unpaid income taxes in 1951-53 (at the same moment similar liens were presented to the Communist Party-see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Said the agent in charge: "Take your belongings and leave...
...estates and their division among the landless. The new plan offers technical assistance, credit, housing and "fundamental agrarian education" aimed at turning the withdrawn Indians into cash-crop farmers and cash-spending consumers. In contrast to the Arbenz regime's land reform decree, which retained a lien on government-issued land (to keep beneficiaries voting the right way), the new law gives outright possession. To prevent estate owners from buying their land right back, it forbids resale for 25 years without government consent...
...pocket: under his contract Hearst is liable for the tab, which will run to more than $200,000, counting attorneys' fees and 6% interest from the day of judgment. Nor is the fat award all pure gravy for Reynolds. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service now has a lien against him for $40,000 for back taxes, also expects to collect income tax on the whole sum. But Reynolds' lawyer believes that the sum is taxfree; thus the award may land in court again...
...moment at least, existentialism has spent its lien on philosophical fashion. Sartre, after writing one of the most effective anti-Communist plays (Dirty Hands), lapsed into the security, not of the church, but of the Communist Party line. His most gifted colleague, gentle, ailing Novelist Camus (The Plague), parted from him. "For a faraway city of which I am not sure, I will not strike the faces of my brothers," he wrote, and disowned Communism...
Syracuse defeated the Crimson 19 to 15 and the Big Rid won by a score of 13 to 9. Syracuse only managed to eke out its triumph by concentrating its first lien men to outscore the Crimson in the game's second half by more than two to one. This was after a startling first half at the end of which the varsity...