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...News. Season after season, the Southwest Conference is one of the roughest, toughest leagues in the U.S. This season it is tougher than ever. Lines are brawny and deep, defenses are stanch and sound. But in the offense-minded Southwest Conference, the big news is a corps of fleet-footed backs who can run over and around the most dogged linebacker, butt heads with the best in the country. Among them: > Baylor's bull-necked Ronnie Bull (6 ft., 198 Ibs.), a halfback last season, who was switched to fullback this year to take advantage of his straight-ahead...
...spectacular revolts. In A.D. 40, Trung Trac, whose husband had been beheaded by the Chinese governor, gathered an army of 80,000 Vietnamese to storm the governor's fort and set up her own kingdom, which lasted for two years. One of Trung Trac's army commanders was a stanch female who went into the fray nine months pregnant, gave birth on the battlefield, then rose to lead her troops in a futile last assault against the avenging Chinese. When the Chinese withdrew in 939, the Annamese turned conquerors in their turn. For nearly a thousand years, the Annamese armies...
...free world has a leader again," exulted Cologne's Neue Rhein Zeitung-and it didn't mean Adenauer. Frankfurter Allgemeine lauded Kennedy's Cabinet picking as "a masterpiece of natural political talent." Even Kennedy's firm demand that Bonn hike its contribution to help stanch the U.S. gold drain was accepted with equanimity. Bonn's earlier proposal of help, admitted the Frankfurter Rundschau, had really been "an insignificant concession...
...provisions favoring special groups or special individuals that run counter to our notions of tax fairness." Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mortimer Caplin has long yearned to cut taxes from 91% to 65% in the highest brackets, and from 20% to 10% in the lowest brackets, chinking loopholes to stanch the loss. Walter Heller, the President's chief economic adviser, would cut the maximum rate to 60%, reduce the lowest rates from 20% to 14%. All three oppose what Heller calls "upsidedown subsidies," such as oil and mining depletion allowances and stock dividend exemptions...
...rebuilt their economy after World War II. But they have been annoyingly frugal about giving out any, even though their coffers have been filling with gold at the rate of $1 billion a year while U.S. reserves are shrinking. Last week, under heavy pressure from the U.S. to help stanch the drain on U.S. gold, West Germany finally agreed to ante up. After a chat between Kennedy and West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, the West Germans announced a long-range foreign aid program of about $1 billion a year...