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...mind of the Chief Executive better than any member of his Cabinet, for the dialogue between the two is boundless. But the weight of the aide's role is easily exaggerated . . . All that Dwight Eisenhower chose to "wear" in public belonged to him, not to any valet or tailor of his language. And in this spirit I shall so report...
...Marshal Tito's Communist rule, a special niche has been provided for the small private businessman who was somehow able to supply products and services the state-controlled organization could not match. But a year or so ago, the profits of the barbers, blacksmiths, pastrymakers, cobblers and tailors began to get out of hand; they bought cars and rented summer homes on fashionable lakesides. Last May Tito's regime decided to wipe them out. Taxes on private business were raised sevenfold. A private tailor with one helper paid the same amount of tax as a Belgrade tailors...
...textile plants in six other Italian towns, are Europe's largest producer of woolens. They own huge farms, 60 low-priced Jolly Hotels scattered throughout Sicily and Italy, and ten clothing shops that handle their Fuso d'Oro (golden spindle) readymade clothing, which they pioneered in tailor-ridden Italy. Revenues last year from the Marzotto enterprises exceeded $100 million...
According to head tutor George Goethals, the goal of the special concentration is "to make the Department more responsive to the emerging needs of individual intellectual development, to let a student 'tailor make' his major...
...Dillon finished reading a 75-page prepared statement than Wisconsin's Congressman John W. Byrnes moved in to attack. Said Byrnes, top-ranking Republican on Ways and Means: "I believe there are two essential requisites for a tax reduction this year. First, there must be some willingness to tailor expenditures to the need for tax reduction and bring federal spending under control. So far, I have not seen any evidence of that willingness on the part of the Administration. Second, the greater part of the proposed structural reforms must be put in the deep freeze...