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...balance of payments accurately reflects the role of the U.S. on the international scene, where it has assumed many heavy burdens since World War II. Were it not for the commitments that it has made to help other nations prosper and to build up the defenses of the free world, the U.S. would be able to boast a nice fat payments credit. With that in mind, many economic thinkers are seriously examining what steps might be taken to improve the balance of payments, short of the undesirable measures of devaluing the dollar or imposing controls on capital movements. Among...
...taxpayer to deduct up to 30% of gross income as church charity. There are a few ministers who hint at even greater financial benefits. A classic example occasionally cited: Oilman Charles Page, who when down on his luck was told by a Salvation Army lassie that he would prosper if he tithed. Starting by giving her 15? out of his last dollar, Page promised to tithe, eventually struck oil. "I couldn't miss," he used to say after he had made his pile. "I was in partnership with the Big Fellow-and he made geology." "Some successful businessmen make...
...only the businessmen prosper, Milan's workers are the industrial elite of Italy. Per capita earnings have leaped 56% since 1952 to $1,000 a year, which in actual purchasing power amounts to much more. Milan's 1,500,000 people pay 26% of the taxes-and grumble as if it were 100%. And all over North Italy-the flaring top quarter of the boot that lies above Florence-workers can now own the refrigerators and television sets they produce. Last year so many of them traded their motor scooters for autos that car registrations in Italy soared...
Gone are the days of Potemkin when crowds swirled down the Odessa steps in a millrace of fluidity. Like Rembrandt, Eisenstein ended his career in a vein of classicism, but unlike Rembrandt, he worked in a medium that does not prosper when it gives up movement for stasis and symmetry--even when that symmetry ascends to such sublime heights as Ivan the Terrible, Part...
LAROUSSE GASTRONOMIQUE, by Prosper Montagné (1,101 pp.; Crown: $20). In this large, well-illustrated American edition of the famous French encyclopedia of food and cooking are recipes for almost everything edible, definitions of culinary terms, and such curiosa as a description of what Louis XIV liked to eat for dinner (the fifth course consisted of various fresh-water fish cooked in pastry, and was intended to remove the taste of the larks, ortolans, thrushes, capons, woodcocks, young turkeys, young hares, sweetbreads, ham, forcemeats, hot pâtés and fritures that had preceded it). Its completeness...