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...driver and 40 West German laborers on the British side of the border near Helmstedt and locked them up in a train shed, on the grounds that they were trespassing on Soviet territory. Three bewildered anglers fishing in a border pond were also caught in the net. Major Colin Ball of the British Frontier Inspection Service drove up briskly and demanded their release. "This is the British zone," he said. "No," answered the Russian officer who had stepped out of the woods to meet him. "Look at your map," said Ball. The Russian did so and suggested obliquely that they...
...summary: Colin Cullin (D) defeated Alex Haegler, 6-4, 6-3; Conrad Fischer (D) defeated Ed Koerner, 6-4, 6-4; Mike Levinson (H) defeated Rudy Wachshan, 7-5, 7-5. Sam Eells (D) defeated Geoff Ball, 6-2, 9-7; Craig Fanning (D) defeated Dan Mayers, 7-5, 6-4; and Jim Gay (D) defeated Bob Crounch...
...suspicion is beginning to grow that there is something wrong with this idea. Down in Australia an eminent economist named Colin Clark has been studying high-tax countries (of which his is one). He finds that the effect of taxes changes when the tax bite rises above 25% of the national income. Taxation has always been considered deflationary, i.e., it saps up "excess purchasing power," and keeps demand from exceeding supply. Beyond 25%, however, Clark thinks that the tax bite is inflationary. The number of dollars in the national income increases faster than the amount of goods. Prices...
...State University documents in his Book-of-the-Month Club selection, Lincoln and His Generals. The thesis is not quite as fresh as it must have seemed to the B-o-M judges, nor as urgent as Professor Williams' somewhat hortatory account makes it sound. British Brigadier General Colin R. Ballard spelled it all out a quarter-century' ago in his witty and clear-eyed Military Genius of Abraham Lincoln (just re-issued by World; $5). What Scholar Williams has done, with fresher materials at his disposal, is to chink in the gaps, make the story more watertight...
...other recipients of Henry awards, which are given annually to United States students for study at Oxford and Cambridge, are Robert K. Woetzel of Columbia and Colin T. Eisler of Yale. Income from the Henry Fund also provides fellowships which enable English students to study at Harvard and Yale...