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...this tax cut won't go through Congress, then no tax cut will," Otto Eckstein, associate professor of Economics, said yesterday, commenting on President Kennedy's proposed $13.5 billion slash in tax rates. Only one of seven professors interviewed, Arthur E. Sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law, failed to support the President's proposals...
...certain that A.I.D. has never been so unpopular. When the Congress refused to swallow the President's request for long-term authority to borrow from the Treasury two years ago, it was just beginning to bend a sympathetic ear to Otto Passman's beefy hostility to the entire program. Last year Capitol Hill celebrated Mr. Passman's eighth year as chairman of the House subcommittee by cutting the Administration's request from $4.95 billion to $3.93 billion. Jealous of their prerogative of scrutinizing aid funds, both House and Senate remained deeply suspicious about the President's intention to transform...
...publicized. The crime he was convicted for- a 1953 holdup slaying-was apparently the act of an angry young Negro who went wrong in an environment where nobody ever found it easy to go right. Last summer, when he was only hours away from the electric chair, Illinois Governor Otto Kerner finally yielded to mounting national pressure and commuted Crump's sentence to life imprisonment (TIME, Aug. 10). Why? Because Crump, in the course of his imprisonment, had become an entirely different personality. And one of the many things that helped to transform him was working on a novel...
...technique for its philippics : each sentence was followed by a burst of martial music. With or without brass accompaniment, the discord between Moscow and Peking reached a crescendo last week, and no one any longer pretended harmony. In Budapest, addressing a congress of the Hungarian Communist Party, Moscow Delegate Otto Kuusinen. 81, oldest member of Khrushchev's Presidium, denounced a Red Chinese visitor two seats away: "Bigmouthed extreme leftist critics are bravely brandishing their verbal weapons before world imperialism." But when the chips were down in Cuba, Kuusinen added, those who "beat their breasts were incapable of giving...
Early in 1939, before the start of World War II, Bohr made a trip to the U.S. Just as his ship was about to leave Copenhagen, two German refugee physicists, Lise Meitner and O. R. Frisch, rushed aboard with a dismaying report. They had just heard that German Chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in Berlin had split the uranium atom. This was atomic fission, and with it the Nazis might soon be able to build an atomic bomb...