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Bosch tidied up corruption in the customs service. Finding hundreds of businesses operating without licenses, he made them pay the official fees. Throwing out a racket whereby contractors were never paid till they had kicked back 30%, he squared accounts, began paying...
...came prepared to envy our husband. We have learned to do that well. But we should have come prepared to wait. That is what we do most. Tuesdays we wait dinner till he comes home from a seminar overly full of beer and cheese. Fridays we wait past midnight for the Nieman dinner and the Hour-At-Cronin's to end. That is when we realize for certain we have lost our husband. He is no longer the uncomplicated newsman we married. He has become Lost In Thought...
...that fight the world over - which includes Peron's Argen tina - till the end of TIME...
...country for the summer, back to the city in the winter. Art is just love, that's all; when I'm messing paint around, my blood pressure goes up like the devil. Sometimes one of my students will have something delectable to paint, and put it off till tomorrow. I don't get that. If you have a wonderful girl, you don't postpone kissing her! But then, I'm 100% Latin...
Henry J. Kaiser, who once seemed to own a private pipeline to the federal till, last week proved that a pipeline can work both ways. His Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. handed a $37.4 million check to the General Services Administration, thus cleared itself of Government debt 23 years ahead of schedule. Except for $51 million still owed by the Kaiser-Frazer Corp., Kaiser's sprawling industrial empire of ten companies and 48 plants is completely off the Government hook. For its help in building or buying plants, Kaiser has paid the Government $250 million in principal, interest and rentals...