Word: past
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...summary," concludes LIFE'S Denny Walsh, "over the past ten years Rhodes has settled tax claims against him by paying in excess of $100,000 in taxes, interest and penalties on income he did not report. For purposes of comparison, the amount he has been forced by IRS to pay in deficiencies is nearly equal to the total amount of income on which Senator Tom Dodd of Connecticut has been accused of evading taxes in his celebrated case...
...trouble with the grandiose is that it commonly neglects day-today housekeeping. Over the past year this has proved overwhelmingly true of De Gaulle's personal dominance of the state. While De Gaulle was off on a junket to Rumania French students last May burst into insurrection against the retrograde bureaucracy of the universities. The revolt gained ominous momentum when the labor unions, restive at static wages and rising prices, joined the students. It seemed, during those weeks of the barricades, that De Gaulle might be deposed while absent from the country. In settling the insurrection and the general...
...appointment of an ombudsman to investigate complaints against the national government. In Londonderry, the all-Protestant city corporation and rural council were abolished this year in favor of a city council that includes five Protestants and four Catholics. In addition, some of the voting practices that in the past have stacked the odds against Catholics have been discontinued...
Germans call it die unbewältigte Vergangenheit - the undigested past. By that, they mean the national burden of collective guilt from the Hitler years, which saw Germany start the largest war and commit the most heinous systematic crimes, including the annihilation of 6,000,000 Jews, that ever scarred the history of a civilized nation. Yet in recent years, many Germans, especially those who grew up since the war, have felt that the whole country was unjustly saddled with the burden of crimes committed by only a part of the population. As Foreign Minister Willy Brandt put it: "Twenty...
When solicitous old friends asked Manuel Cortés Quero, 63, how he was feeling, he replied: "These shoes are killing me." With good reason. For the past 30 years Cortés has been shoeless, padding around in carpet slippers in an upstairs room of his house in Mijas, above the seaport of Málaga. His self-imposed imprisonment ended last week when Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered an amnesty for all survivors of the losing Republican side in the Spanish Civil War of three decades...