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WEST GERMAN COMPETITION with U.S. and British firms is growing stiffer in underdeveloped areas. West Germany's latest prize: a $14 million contract to engineer biggest hydroelectric power project in Southeast Asia, a 200,000-kw. job in Malaya's Cameron Highlands...
...resolve the quandary, Under Secretary of the Treasury Fred C. Scribner Jr. suggested 1) a tax on total life insurance income, 2) a stiffer tax on investment income only, 3) a compromise taxing part of investment income and part of underwriting income. The subcommittee is readying a bill, based on the compromise proposal, which will raise the life insurance companies' tax bill to between $400 and $500 million a year. At week's end it was apparent that most companies will go along with the new proposal...
...blow to newsgatherers who rely so often on information from undisclosed and undisclosable sources was a severe one. If a source can no longer rely on his anonymity--and there are contempt citations stiffer than ten days in jail--he is likely to refuse to talk. Unidentified sources are often vital to the coverage of governmental affairs. In an era of bureaucratic hush-hush the anonymous tipster has become a must for responsible reporters. To close his mouth is, in many cases, to deny the public valuable and necessary information...
...varsity cross country team will have been easy affairs, as the harriers coasted to handy victories on the fine running of Captain Dyke Benjamin and sophomore Jed Fitzgerald. Brown, however, has already proven its strength in stiffer competition by placing second in a triangular meet with powerful Yale and Connecticut last week...
...first two years of study, the student's program consists mainly of courses in General Education. According to Academic Dean Meribeth Elliott Cameron, seven or eight of the ten courses in the freshman and sophomore years are taken to fulfill the Mount Holyoke General Education requirement, which is considerably stiffer than Harvard...