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...reason the Longorias have been able to expand so fast: Mexico's laws put a tax ceiling of 333% on corporation profits and prohibit double taxation, i.e., a company's profits are taxed, but not the dividends. Says Chito, "It's a good way. You have to let the individual grow. After he has grown, O.K., tax him, but let him grow first...
...week's end, the last big holdout was heard from: India will boycott the conference. Jawaharlal Nehru told a cheering Parliament that he opposes the treaty because: 1) it does not prohibit U.S. forces in Japan; 2) does not turn over Formosa to Red China; 3) gives the U.S. trusteeship over the Ryukyu and Bonin Islands, including Okinawa; 4) does not confirm Russia's Yalta title to the Kuriles and South Sakhalin; 5) does not give Japan "honor, equality and contentment...
...fully alive," he said, "to the need to control the export of strategic goods . . . Our embargo list covers this field . . . Why, our American friends sometimes ask, do we not prohibit all ... exports? The answer is clear enough...
...your April 30 article covering the case of the Labrenzes who refused for religious reasons to allow a blood transfusion to save the life of their child: the whole subject appears to me to involve ... the fundamental right of society to prohibit suicide or murder by religious tenet . . . The Chicago court's action in denying the parents' right to murder their child by a default based on religious principle is a healthy indication...
...elbow rubbing with men of ordinary walk of life. I am sure the vast majority of Harvard students resent this spectacle of being forced into a position of seeking escape form the responsibilities forced on us in the gravest time of our history. The Senate-House rewrite version should prohibit all deferments at the end of the school year except in a few cases. Francis J. Bassett Graduate School of Education