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America's Burden. Under the VAT sys tem, companies at each stage of manufacture add a standard percentage of tax - 11% in West Germany, 12.5% in Denmark - to the difference between what they paid for the materials and the price at which their products are sold. Consumers ultimately pay the en tire levy as part of the price of almost everything they buy. In Paris, used car dealers drove through town last week in protest against the new 25% VAT "luxury" rate on their cars. In Amsterdam, a restaurant owner, cooks and waiters recently staged a mock funeral procession...
...delights offered by the expanding U.S. Interstate Highway Sys tem is the prospect of vast stretches of highway, completely free of intersections and traffic lights. The ultimate -coast to coast without a red light - will not be possible until 1972. But right now, the American Automobile Association announces, a driver can wheel onto the Massachusetts Turnpike in downtown Boston, go on to pick up the New York Thruway (Interstate 90), continue through Pennsylvania to Interstate 71 leading to the Ohio Turnpike and Indiana Toll Road (both posted Interstate 80/90), then, using the recently completed Chicago bypass, proceed on Interstate...
Hinkle, head of Cornell's Human Ecology Division, and seven other medical researchers reached this conclusion after studying the health histories of 270,000 male employees of the Bell Sys tem - a string of companies that extend from New England to California. Like many physicians, Hinkle believed that movement to higher and higher levels of executive responsibility increased the chances for heart trouble. But, says Hinkle, "the story did not come out that...
...printed a reply to each point, starting with the students' bedrock demand for the enforcement of constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. While allowing that some of the complaints might be justified, the paper warned that such freedoms "cannot be used against the character of our socialist sys tem." As for the students' protest against police brutality during the rioting, the paper came straight to the point. "When chopping wood," it said, "splinters must fly." The students got a new ally, how ever, in Poland's Roman Catholic Episcopate, which broke its silence on the outbursts...
...equipment into 0-to 5-volt signals, Astrolog will record them on a tape that will be fed into a computer. From the data, the computer will define such indi cations of pilot performance as bank angles, speed in turbulence, sink rate and even use of the public-address sys tem. It will also spot any unsafe maneuvers or actions and print out "exception reports" that the airline will use to help the pilot correct his techniques...