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...CONGRESS Ike Gets His Way Once the Administration had battered down the roadblock set up by House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dan Reed (TIME, July 6), the battle to extend the excess profits tax for six months was won. Last week Ways & Means sent an extension bill to the floor. During the five-hour debate, Virginia's Democrat Howard Smith compared the Administration to a highwayman who says: "Now give me your wallet. I know I ought not to do it . . . but I need the money, and I give you my solemn assurance ... I will never...
...Kettering could say was to suggest a test. although the weight of engineering argument was against him. The self-starter worked beautifully, and with it the industry passed the greatest roadblock in automotive progress since the first car was invented...
...Means Committee (voting 21-4) approved a tax bill without even bothering to hold hearings. It was H.R.-1 Committee Chairman Reed's bill to cut individual income taxes about 10% effective July 1. But both the House and Senate leaders (with White House blessing) were prepared to roadblock H.R.-1, and any other tax-cut bill, at least until mid-May-when the budget picture will be clearer...
After six frustrating years of trying to budge the roadblocks to world peace, Norway's Trygve Halvdan Lie resigned this week as Secretary-General of the United Nations. His reason: his fear that he himself has become a roadblock...
...seven court actions to force tax officials to open their records of tax abatements." This statement is unfair to Providence city officials whose tax records are open to any and all citizens. It was in nearby Pawtucket (pop. 81,000) that city officials used every legal and physical roadblock (including a uniformed policeman to bar reporters from city hall offices) in their attempt to block reporters from access to records...