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...somber. 4OO-word statement printed in his own London Times, Baron Astor of Hever, 76, who was born in New York City and is the great-great-grandson of fur-trading Millionaire John Jacob Astor, announced that though he loves England dearly and will remain a loyal citizen, he simply cannot afford to die there. Because a newly adopted finance act imposes an 80% death duty on real property held overseas by any British subject who dies at home. Lord Astor, who owns an estimated $40 million in U.S. real estate, has decided to spend his last years in Southern...
...quantity and quality of many high-priority weapons. The Russian atomic stockpile, long smaller and less diversified than the U.S.'s, is now growing to the point where Communism can inflict grievous damage. The U.S.S.R. has a force of modern jet bombers with electronic defenses, a fleet of 4OO-plus submarines, even an arsenal of operational medium-range ballistic missiles with which the Communists can now attack targets in Japan, Formosa, and most of Western Europe (but the U.S.S.R.'s intercontinental missiles are still experimental...
...Needled by Communist bigwigs, Russian track and field stars turned on the heat in the last few days of Moscow's Spartakiada sports festival. A runner virtually unknown in the West, Semyon Rzhishchin, lowered the world 3,000-meter steeplechase record to 8:39.8. Soviet swimmers dropped the 4OO-meter medley relay mark...
...Vernon Richter, the joy of farming had vanished; life on a 4OO-acre rented farm near Fergus Falls, Minn, had become a grim effort to survive. Through the freezing winter Richter, 31, cared for his six small children so that his wife could clerk in a Fergus Falls clothing store. When spring came he went into his fields at 4 a.m., stayed until midnight fighting the soil for a fuller yield. But the bills piled...
...JOINT COMMITTEE OF CONSUMERS AND SMALL PRODUCERS OF NATURAL GAS, I WAS QUITE SURPRISED TO SEE MYSELF AND MY COMMITTEE ALIGNED WITH SENATOR CHARLES POTTER IN OPPOSING PASSAGE OF THE NATURAL GAS BILL IN YOUR JAN. 30 ARTICLE "THE LOBBYIST." MY COMMITTEE, BACKED BY MORE THAN 350 MAYORS AND 4OO SMALL PRODUCERS OF NATURAL GAS, TO SAY NOTHING OF THOUSANDS OF CONSUMERS, IS BUSILY ENGAGED IN DOING ALL IN ITS POWER TO PRESENT THE FACTS IN THE INTERESTS OF THE SUCCESSFUL PASSAGE OF THE BILL...