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...Real Stinker. In its final hours, the debate produced sparks. The day before the ratification vote, dissenting Senators sought to tie a spate of qualifications to the pact-any one of which could have put the whammy on the whole works. "If reservations are attached to the treaty," New York Republican Jacob Javits had warned, "it will mar for the world and all the nations which are signing the treaty the statesmanship which dedicated it in the first place...
Coupled with the reductions are a spate of revenue-increasing provisions. Taxpayers, under the Ways and Means version of the bill, will no longer be allowed to deduct state and local gas, cigarette and liquor taxes. Although stockholders will be allowed to exclude the first $100 of dividend income from taxable income instead of the first $50-a break for small stockholders-the rule allowing them to subtract 4% of the remaining income was repealed. Tax exemptions will not be permitted for the first 30 days of sick pay or the first $100 of casualty losses. The executive with stock...
Kefauver tried to rev up a campaign again for 1956-largely through a spate of investigations into Dixon-Yates, pornography, black market babies, juvenile delinquency, and sundry other sins. He lost again to Stevenson. But in a dramatic tussle for the vice-presidential nomination, the gawky Tennessee lawyer managed to produce a razor-thin victory over Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy after a thrilling roll-call fight. But when the Democratic ticket went down to crashing defeat that November, Estes Kefauver's great days were over...
...France made nothing of the occasion for, as impressionism grew in favor, paintings of the great romantic offended public taste. Now, on the centennial of his death, it seems as if the art world cannot hear or see enough of Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix. A spate of articles has appeared in the art magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, and at least three new books on him are coming out.* Earlier this year Toronto put on a Delacroix retrospective, and 3 last week six memorial exhibitions were running in Paris...
Prices were soaring in the wake of the war, strikes were frequent, and postwar revolutions in Europe were making everybody jittery. Many people were sure the Reds were planning a revolution in the U.S. any day. There was a spate of ugly bombings; a clumsy plot to assassinate many top American officials was uncovered; and one Senator's maid had her hands blown off when she opened a package containing a bomb...