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...than their best to their own company, needlessly exposes the company to the peril of stockholders' suits and a damaged public reputation. To avoid even the appearance of wrongdoing, many a U.S. executive could well recall an old Chinese proverb: "When passing through your neighbor's melon patch, do not stoop to tie your shoe...
Looking at the current African leaders, Essien-Udom contrasts Toure, whom he calls a revolutionist, wanting to change the whole of society, with Nkrumah, a reformist who only wants to patch things up, here and there. As to which of these kinds of change he thinks Nigeria needs most, Essien-Udom merely answers: "I am not a politician...
...Internal Revenue Service's basic guide to businessmen and tax agents in reckoning tax write-off allowances (Bulletin F) was last revised in 1942. It is geared to the patch-and-retread psychology of the Depression and the war, takes little account of the rapid pace of technology in which a machine may be made obsolete by a better model a year after it is installed. In the iron and steel industry, the life of machinery is an average 25 years. On the straight-line basis of tax deductions applying to all pre-1954 purchased equipment, such machinery...
...good deal of heavyweight drama follows, much of it involving a holy relic that the villains want to get their hands on. Joseph Gotten honors cinematic tradition as a U.S. war correspondent. He wears an eye patch and is dressed in what looks like an Italian tailor's interpretation of Winston Churchill's siren suit. Nunnally Johnson is deeply involved; he wrote the film and directed...
...catche a falling star" among life's impossible jobs. And Air Force Captain Harold E. Mitchell, who had been assigned the chore, last week had reason to agree: he had missed the week before. His specially equipped C-119 Flying Boxcar, patrolling a 12,000-sq.-mi. patch of the Pacific near Hawaii, had tried to snare Discoverer XIII's descending instrument capsule, coming from outer space, in midair. He almost caught it-but had to watch helplessly while the capsule fell to the ocean below, to be picked up by the U.S. Navy...