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...drastic boost in purchase tax, mostly on necessaries. Ironing boards, pot scourers, pastry boards, kitchen scales and shopping baskets, untaxed for the last nine years, will henceforth pay 30%. Items formerly taxed at 25%, e.g., bicycles and toothpaste, will now pay 30%; those at 50%, e.g., cars, TV sets and refrigerators, will...
...action. Calling a Cabinet meeting next morning, he sacked the ministers without waiting for their resignations; within hours he had installed as Defense Minister retired General Pierre Billotte, a member of the so-called "dissident Gaullists." Billotte's first order was a stern warning to defiant French generals henceforth, "every French soldier, regardless of rank, will do his duty." Then Billotte hastened to Morocco, with orders to hustle De Latour into doing what Faure had already told him to do- form a regency council...
...week Harvester revealed that it had been treading on thin ice all along: it quit the freezer business. The company sold its 962,000-sq. ft. Evansville, Ind. refrigerator plant for $19 million to fast-growing Whirlpool-Seeger Corp. (which is backed by RCA and Sears, Roebuck), announced that henceforth it would stick to its $1 billion-a-year farm-equipment business...
...scholars are at loggerheads over the extent to which the Essene documents affect traditional Christianity. Says Dupont-Sommer, a former Roman Catholic priest: "All the problems relative to primitive Christianity henceforth find themselves placed in a new light, which forces us to reconsider them completely." Christ, he feels, is a prototype, "in many respects an astonishing reincarnation" of the Essene Teacher of Righteousness. This implies that Jesus might have found in Essene thinking a role readymade for him. But Dupont-Sommer emphasizes that...
...P.W.s became Communist converts, but found that many more of the P.W.s who were not "progressives" nonetheless "went along." The committee concluded that these men weakened because they lacked sufficient knowledge of U.S. democracy. The committee therefore recommended, and President Eisenhower agreed, that U.S. fighting men must henceforth be fully grounded in the principles of U.S. democracy before they go to war, because "the Korean story 'must never be permitted to happen again...