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...into law is debatable. Washington's labor lobbies, already warming up for House Ways & Means Committee hearings on the message next month, claim that the investment incentive will only encourage corporations to create greater unemployment by building automated plants. Business groups complain that some of the new taxes wipe out the very funds earmarked for plant investment. "By the time he's through," complained one industry spokesman, "he's given an incentive of $1.7 billion, and taken that and more out of the savings stream. And how that is a way to develop incentive...
...increasing pressure from Comrade Gomulka's party activists. Last year, factories suddenly stopped or slowed down deliveries of materials for church buildings, and the army started drafting seminary students a few at a time. Two religious holidays were declared to be official workdays. Then the party threatened to wipe out religious education in the schools, which Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski had won from Gomulka after months of struggle four years...
...Object. It is to wipe out enemy troops. The game is over when one side is wiped out or surrenders. A tie at the end of the game is a moral victory for the South. You maneuver your forces--as single units or armies composed of groups of units--to wipe out your enemy. You wipe out enemy troops in two ways...
Preacher & Teacher. Archbishop Ramsey also disagrees with Archbishop Fisher on the desirability of making adultery a criminal offense, and demurs from Dr. Fisher's opinion that God may well want the human race to wipe itself out. "I am not a pacifist," he told students at Oxford last year, "but it is difficult to see today how there could be a just war. If the choice came between blowing up the world and being overrun by Communism, I still don't think we have the right to blow up the world...
Raincoats Are Enough. Biggest market is Africa, where only a fraction of the population can afford new clothes, and where self-conscious new nations like Ghana are anxious to wipe out traditional tribal nudity. Ghana last year doubled its purchase of used clothes, spent some $1,680,000 on broni waawu, mostly from the U.S., and the All-Africa Women's League, the most militant no-nakedness national organization, distributed several thousand garments free. Morocco last year imported $1,000,000 in secondhand garments. In East Africa, the political and missionary propaganda on the importance of wearing clothes...