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...opening his investigation of tax-exempt foundations last year, Tennessee's Republican Congressman Brazilla Carroll Reece declared: "Here lies the story of how Communism and socialism are financed in the U.S. . . . There is evidence to show there is a diabolical conspiracy back of all this." Last week Recce's committee published the results of its work, along with an angry dissent by the committee's two Democrats, Ohio's Wayne Hays and Idaho's Gracie Pfost. The committee's conclusions, said the Democrats, "was, like the theme of doom in a tragic opera, revealed...
...league flatly demanded that state sterilization and antimarriage laws be revised to exempt epileptics, recommended that epileptics be allowed to drive after a two-year period free of seizures. The league also asked that states encourage employers to hire epileptics by passing laws exempting the employer from liability if an epileptic is injured as the result of a seizure. Employers' baseless fears that epileptics will be more accident-prone have left half the nation's epileptics unemployed, saddled the states with an unnecessary economic burden...
...Harvard world of conflicting ideas, science concentrators have been uniquely sheltered. Exempt from Natural Science courses, and--except for Biochemical scientists--from tutorial instruction also, the College's future scientists are required to take only a few non-technical courses...
Last week, in special seminars anticipating the sovereign status West Germany will shortly enjoy, U.S. Army units all over Germany were busy teaching the conquerors to become guests. As aliens subject to German law, G.I.s will no longer be exempt from German excise taxes or the compulsory German auto insurance law. If they live in a requisitioned house, they will have to get out within a year. Unlike the Germans themselves, the G.I.s will not be subject to property or income taxes; nor will they be subject to criminal prosecution in German courts (though the German police will have...
...first decisions under its new policy to exempt small firms from the Taft-Hartley Act (TIME, July 26), the National Labor Relations Board last week split on where the line should be drawn. Last summer, when NLRB first announced that it would narrow its jurisdiction to exclude small retailers, utility companies, etc., and concentrate on companies having an important impact on interstate commerce, there was no dissent. But when NLRB last week showed what it meant by turning down six of eight union requests for federal supervision of bargaining elections,* the decision divided the five-man board on straight party...