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...their businesses by, the other to show the tax collector) declared an average net profit of only $89 a month in 1952, whereas even office employees received an average $104 a month. "A presumption of fraud weighs heavily on tradesmen and artisans," said the government. But in southern and southwestern France, unabashed Poujade vigilantes went right on chasing tax collectors down the roads, mobbing police and defying troops assigned to escort them. Even as Poujade boasted that his movement had swelled to 800,000 members and was spreading to other areas, a tax official admitted wanly: "South of the Loire...
...Yale graduate, Whiting has conducted field study in New Guinea and in the southwestern states, where he worked on the College's cross-cultural survey of child-raising in Indian, American, and Spanish-American communities. He is currently heading a study in child-development in five different cultural societies at Cornell, Harvard, and Yale...
...world's generals and statesmen, the radioactive "fallout" from nuclear explosions is a grave worry for the future. For scientists who date ancient objects by Carbon 14. it is already a serious nuisance and threatens to get worse. Southwestern laboratories near the Nevada atom-bomb testing ground have found it impossible to use Carbon 14; there is too much competing radioactivity in their vicinity. Even on the Eastern seaboard, Carbon 14 work at the University of Pennsylvania has often been stopped by a radioactive cloud drifting slowly overhead. The "background radiation" gets so strong that the voice of Carbon...
SINCLAIR OIL, which wants to increase its oil and gas reserves, is working on a multimillion-dollar deal to buy American Republics Corp. from Torkild ("Cap") Richer, who helped negotiate the Iranian oil settlement (TIME, Feb. 1). Dickering price for American, which has rich reserves in Southwestern and Gulf states: $72 a share (1,500,000 shares outstanding), $4 more than the current market price...
Swimmer Dave Hawkins picked up 14 trophies over the summer with the Australian team, which won the swimming title in the British Empire Games at Vancouver before making a triumphant tour of southwestern United States. The junior worked his time in the 100-yard butterfly down to 68.2 while breaking California and Far Western A.A.U. records for the event...