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...colleagues were taken aback when Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns showed up at a Common Market conference in Luxembourg in his stockinged feet. Red socks at that. Luns explained that his scarlet chaussures were actually a pair of knitted slippers. For sore feet? "No, but these are more comfortable than shoes. It makes me slightly smaller," said the 6-ft. 6-in. diplomat, "and I can think better...
...students- members and supporters of the school's Rosa Luxembourg chapter of SDS- were still in the executive offices as of 1:30 a.m. today...
...Hitler's Last Great Gamble" [Dec. 19]: Any member of the U.S. Army's 28th Infantry stationed near the Our River separating northeastern Luxembourg from Germany who went on a reconnaissance patrol or was at a forward post during the three days preceding the attack knew that something big was brewing. For eight hours preceding the attack, the skies over the river were illuminated by giant searchlights enabling tanks and troops to assemble and cross the river -and all this was dutifully reported back to headquarters by us "dogfaces." U.S. Intelligence wasn't unaware. They either underestimated...
...Havens. A raffish odor clung to I.O.S. for years because its legal home was Panama and so many of its 100 subsidiaries were incorporated in tax havens -the Bahamas, Luxembourg, the Netherlands Antilles. (One result is that I.O.S. paid only $945,000 in taxes on its 1968 income of $15.3 million.) Lately, as Cornfeld's success has led dozens of other mutual funds to incorporate "offshore," the tax-dodging criticism has lost much of its sting. Last June, I.O.S. quietly shifted its legal domicile to Canada. European bankers who once sneered at Cornfeld's brash ways have lately...
...that they could not endorse a principle that may encourage anarchy. They suggested that a law should be obeyed, even if it may be unconstitutional, until a few citizens test the issue in the courts. Among the six commissioners who disagreed was Patricia Roberts Harris,* former U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. Mrs. Harris, a Negro, pointed out that blacks would have made little progress if they had relied on lawful tactics alone. "A nation whose history enshrines the civil disobedience of the Boston Tea Party," she said, "cannot fail to recognize at least the symbolic merit of demonstrated hostility to unjust...