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Polish or not, Gronouski performed ably as Wisconsin's tax commissioner for the past four years, helped revamp the state's whole revenue system. A Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, he is an affable, pipe-smoking ex-college professor whose air of rumpled relaxation is deceiving. He is a driving administrator, has worked twelve to 16 hours a day himself, and expects his staff to do the same. He is a militant Democrat who drew constant fire from Wisconsin papers for his partisanship while tax commissioner-a nonelective office. But even state Republicans have grudging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Postmaster Who Licked Stamps | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

...more doubt was cast on the racial implications of the fight when a sixth member of the Quartermaster Company was arrested and also charged with homicide and aggravated assault. He was a white man, PFC Allen Gernard, 18, of New York City, who presumably had grabbed a piece of pipe and joined his Negro buddies in the attack on the airmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: The Magic Word | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

...with the East is in fact declining, slumped to $200 million last year. The U.S. embargo on trade with Red China discourages most Western allies from courting Peking too openly, and NATO's embargo on sales of strategic items prevents the Communists from buying the computers, large-diameter pipe and other Western industrial goods that they desire most. Aside from politics, the cold economic reality is that until the Communist nations are able to produce higher quality goods that can move in Western markets, they will simply lack the foreign exchange to purchase much more from the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iron Curtain: East-West Trade Winds | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...servant goes away. The old man puffs at his pipe and stares across the plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tragedy of Pride | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...companies filed a registration statement with the SEC last week outlining plans to issue some $27 million worth of public stock for a project to pipe pay TV to subscribers in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Hopefully, they will be offering first-run movies, all the productions of Manhattan Impresario Sol Hurok, and the home games of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants, now blacked out on local commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Boost for Pay TV | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

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