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...than half the Government's science bill is paid by the Department of Defense, 35% by the AEC, 6% by the Federal Security Agency and 5% by the Department, of Agriculture. All other agencies combined paid less than 3% of the total. This year, as usual, the biggest chunk of cash was spent on the physical sciences ($255 million). Second: the biological, medical and agricultural sciences ($70 million). Social sciences brought up the rear with $17 million...
Lowell led the contributions with $2,507.86. Bellboys have traditionally, given the largest chunk of the funds collected. Eliot House followed by a narrow margin, donating $2,433.85. Winthrop was third with $1,958.50, and Leverett fourth with...
Actually, the gain was not as big as it looked; some of it simply reflected bookkeeping adjustment. Last year's third-quarter profits were hit hard by Congress's big retroactive tax bite which came out of the third quarter in one big chunk. U.S. Steel, for example, set aside an added $26 million in taxes to pay the bill. It was also helped by a $5,000,000 tax credit under the excess-profits law, since this year's actual profits were below last year's. Consequently, Big Steel was able to show a third...
...most colorful and energetic parts of the production are the Raffle and If You Haven't Got a Sweetheart Ballets, where Rita Karlin dances off with a good chunk of the show. I'll Buy You a Star and Love Is the Reason are songs with catchy tunes and lyrics, but neither Shackleton nor Miss Blondell are able to display them...
...passenger on the Hong Kong-Macao ferry last week was as weather-beaten, ageless and nondescript as a chunk of driftwood. Like the driftwood, he seemed doomed to float from shore to shore on the China Sea forever. He had no passport. His name, he said, is Michael Patrick O'Brien, but he readily admitted: "Back home in Washington and Oregon, they call me Steven Stanley Regan." He never knew his father; his mother was Hungarian; the only identification he possesses is a Red Cross certificate which calls him "a stateless Irishman...