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...logical shepherd for Administration fiscal programs opposed by Conservative Byrd. But Long, like Kerr, often conditions his support on what his own state gets in return, and his stands are even harder to categorize than Kerr's. On many issues -such as antitrust legislation-Russell seems proper heir to his father's red-clay radicalism. But. like Kerr, Long bitterly fights any attempt to alter the oil-depletion tax allowance, is opposed to tax crackdowns on business expense accounts...
...when La Scala paid Di Stefano his regular $10,000 fee despite the fact that he was not going to perform. Giuseppi simmered down. But not his friends. "Don't let yourself be insulted by a foreigner," they cautioned him. Quickly working himself back into a proper Sicilian rage, Di Stefano turned his $10,000 over to the Italian Opera Singers Association "to start a fighting fund to battle for the dignity and honor of Italian opera singers, who are continually pushed around...
Solomons declared that this is "a question not only of free speech, but of the rights of the citizens of the city to the proper use of the school property." He warned that "a meeting of this kind might stir up such excitement that the property of the City would be in danger...
Last week, conceding that his wheeling and dealing "might not be a proper Englishman's cup of tea," ebullient Bill Zeckendorf announced Evacuation Day for the hapless British. He acknowledged that his three British representatives, as well as three Americans whom the British had named to the board, had resigned as directors (though the British hold on to their 15% of Webb & Knapp stock). The British had found Zeckendorf impossible to harness or control. Barely controlling his own glee at having shucked off his British advisers, Zeckendorf piously admitted: "They thought that they could reform...
What apparently spurred Brazil into the settlements was a retroactive amendment tacked onto President Kennedy's Foreign Assistance Act of 1962, freezing foreign aid to any country that expropriates U.S.-controlled companies without reimbursing the owners for their loss within a proper time...