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...miss some states with records of voting abuses. There is voter discrimination in Florida, Arkansas and Tennessee, but they do not fall under the bill's provisions because those states do not require literacy tests. Says a Justice Department attorney: "If we had tried to use a finer net, we would have caught a lot more nondiscriminatory fish...
...fire, withdrawing your troops, and returning the weapons of the peaceloving followers of Gandhi, may have fooled the Chinese people, but the American people weren't fooled for a minute. Your fiendish stunt of peacefully settling your borders with every other country to the south, including giving Burma a net 25,000 square miles of territory that was previously China's was merely a further attempt to make Gandhi's children appear the villains...
...Creative Person, a National Educational Television series aimed at elucidating the thesis: "The creative person has a special gift: his private vision of the world." The cycle of half-hour programs has already premiered over 20 of the U.S.'s largest NET channels, will eventually be carried by all 90 of them. The opener, "A James Thurber's-Eye View of Men, Women and Less Alarming Creatures," was a resourceful, rousing revue adapted from the author's work. This week's show focuses fascinatingly on Household Poet-Critic John Ciardi; among its vignettes: a sound track...
Splitting the Proceeds. Aniline's Swiss owner, a holding company called Inter-handel, will net $121 million from the sale because of former Attorney General Robert Kennedy's controversial decision to settle its ownership claims out of court by splitting the proceeds. The Government's $208 million will go into a war-claims fund to pay U.S. citizens for property and (in some cases) relatives lost during World War II. As for the anxious new investors, they hope to profit by the improvement in General Aniline's prospects already begun under research-minded President Dr. Jesse...
...attracted by last year's 23% increase in the auction price of racing colts. Cattle managing has also become popular; it boasts such notable investors as Jack Benny, Greer Garson and Advertising Executive Marion Harper, all of whom seek the average 30% -40% annual return after taxes. The net runs high because earnings from sales of herds are taxed as capital gains at a top of 25%, and investors can write off the expense of raising herds against their income taxes...