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Undaunted by a new law that, for the first time, makes it a punishable offense (maximum penalty: three years' imprisonment) to file a fraudulent national income-tax return, Italy's taxpayers last week kicked off their annual game of "Guess My Income" with local community tax collectors. The...
Open-Shirt Diplomacy. Peurifoy died as he lived-audaciously, dramatically, at high speed. Though anything but an orthodox diplomat. Jack Peurifoy had performed outstandingly in difficult assignments-Greece, Guatemala, Thailand. He was essentially a political operator-jaunty, backslapping, forever doing favors, confidential with correspondents, quick at sizing up the practicalities...
¶ Was host to 30 guests at two stag dinners at which the main course was chukar, a species of south Asian partridge. Among the guests was Columbia University's Football Coach Lou Little, who first met Dwight Eisenhower in 1924 when Ike was coach of the Fort Meade...
Crossing to the other side of the room, the Lieutenant and I inspected the 30 and 50 caliber machine guns, the three-incher, and the depth charges. To prove his calling, he sauntered up to the big gun, pulled a lever, slapped the breech closed, and joshed, "Wouldn't do...
Avery Brundage, 64, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, is an old hand at sizing up Olympic talent. Last week, after watching the Los Angeles relays, Brundage could no longer restrain his enthusiasm. "With just those boys we had out there tonight," he said, "we can win the Olympic track...