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...windfall money back from some 6,500 other building projects, said that he would keep right on trying. BIR. which has 1,400 other suits pending to reclaim an estimated $1.5 billion in taxes on similar building profits, plans to appeal the Tax Court decision. But its chances look bleak...
Last week the Down Under boom suffered a temporary setback. When Sinatra returned to Melbourne from Sydney, he found the 8,000-seat stadium burned to the ground, had to move to a smaller (3,000) hall, and Promoter Gordon faced a bleak week. Worse, Brisbane's newspaper Truth quoted Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Arthur Fadden who was "very perturbed" about the influx of profit-hungry American entertainers. "They are like butcherbirds," * said he. "They fly in, pick up the worm and fly away again." Nevertheless, Aussie audiences went on cheering, and when he flies...
...bleak, chilly day last week, as Samuel Marvin Griffin was inaugurated as the 72nd governor of Georgia, the Capitol flags flew at half-staff, in mourning for Georgia's 60th governor, John M. Slaton, who had died in the fullness of his 89th year just nine hours before the inauguration. Slaton's death recalled a story of rare political courage...
Forty Pitheads. Vorkuta is a complex of prison camps, situated in the bleak tundra territory of European Russia on the river Vorkuta above the Arctic Circle, about 1,400 miles northeast of Leningrad. A century ago Czar Nicholas I's advisers suggested to him that he make a colony for political prisoners at Vorkuta, but when he learned the conditions, Nicholas decided that it was "too much to demand of any man that he should live there." The Soviets let the native Komi remain there, virtually ignored until 1942, until the invading Nazis captured the Donbas coal mines. Then...
...picture would not look so bleak here were there not the striking similarities between the case of Professor Furry and the case of Dr. Singer. If anything, the formers testimony is more unpopular since he admitted previous membership in the Communist Party...