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...president of Sanitary Farms Dairy, Erie, Pa., and his wife took a six-month African safari in 1950, with stops in Paris, London and Rome. The Tax Court permitted the firm to deduct $16,443 for costs of the trip on the ground that it constituted legitimate "advertising...
Much more was involved in Clough's six-month sentence than a reporter's simple insistence on keeping mum. Clough's story said that the Red trawlers had come snooping because of secrets sold to Russia by John Vassall, a clerk in the British Admiralty and a known homosexual. One of the more scandalous episodes in British officialdom, the Vassall affair did not end with the Admiralty clerk's imprisonment (TIME, Nov. 2). British press stories sparked the official inquiry that nabbed Clough. How could the papers have been so knowing without leaks from the Admiralty...
...will continue as chairman. The stickiest problem Shomaker faces is an antitrust ruling requiring Brown to sell the G. R. Kinney Corp., a 360 shoe-store chain that Brown acquired in 1956. Brown wants three years to accomplish the unstitching, but the trustbusters are pushing for a six-month deadline...
...states have such laws: Arkansas, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Tennessee are without them. In New York, for example, adultery is punishable by a six-month jail term and/or a $250 fine. But the laws are rarely invoked. In 1948, a year chosen for study, only 267 arrests were made in the whole country and of these, 242 were in Boston...
Gamal Abdel Nasser is about as enthusiastic about the zaars as he is about bar mitzvahs, and has long been anxious to eliminate them as a vestige of the Dark Ages. Nasser's Interior Ministry has finally got around to banning them completely under threat of a six-month to three-year jail term. Uprooting the zaars may prove difficult in remote villages, but Nasser will have no trouble in the cities, where a more sophisticated populace has outgrown them and where the neighbors are bound to hear the racket if anyone tries to stage one. Scores...