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...legal grounds and pointed out that it applied only to diplomats appointed before the tax was imposed. Prince Pacelli and Count Pecci kept silent. But, crying "anticlericalists!" the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano opened a running debate with critics of the tax exemptions, declared that the implied slap at the Pope might be punishable under Italian...
...discussion before a caucus of Senate Republicans one day last week promised to freeze farm props for another year at the surplus-building levels that cost the U.S. $3.25 billion last fiscal year. Already passed by both branches of Congress (TIME, March 31), it was a deliberate slap in the face for Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who wants permission to cut farm subsidies and make a start toward whittling down the scandalous farm-surplus problem. The argument essentially was between principle and politics. It took the Republican caucus exactly 80 minutes to stand foursquare with politics, to vote...
...night dressmakers were chiseling on union contracts. They farmed work out to nonunion shops in violation of their contract, paid subcontract wages, welshed on union benefit payments, kept several sets of books. To fight back. Dubinsky demanded that union and management stiffen their policing of contract abuses, slap automatic fines on chiselers. Management said that the present loose policing methods are good enough. Furthermore, the union was not always an aggressive policeman. When the I.L.G.W.U. nabbed a chiseler, it sometimes let him off easy for fear that he would fold. On the policing dispute, the contract talks collapsed...
Time was when Russia's light-fingered lady discus thrower, Nina Ponomaryeva, could lift a couple of hats from a London department store (TIME, Sept. 10, 1956) and rate hardly a slap on the wrist from her commissar chaperons. Nina was needed for the Olympics. But the party line has changed. Last week Czechoslovakia's table-tennis champion, Ivan Andreadis, was "temporarily disqualified" from the national team for "unsporting behavior." His bourgeois crime: Ivan "forgot" to report a large hunk of his earnings...
...first six minutes of play. Cleary opened the scoring for the varsity when he took a pass from Guttu and scored on an open net. (Pitts was out of the cage, scurrying after a rebound.) Fischer made it 2-0 when he tipped in one of Owen's slap shots from the blue line at 15:30 of the opening period...