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Canada, which has had singular success in maintaining a budget surplus, last week was demonstrating one way to get more government revenues: cut taxes. In April 1951, Canada increased its already high cigarette tax by 3? a pack, to 25?. This gave the smuggling of cigarettes such a boost (an estimated 18% of legal sales) that annual revenues from the tax dropped $4,700,000 to $169.8 million. A year later, Canada removed the 3? tax increase; government revenues went up $9,400,000 for the year. But smugglers were still busy...
...competition called the Paralympics, and a crowd of 3,000 watched teams from eight nations fight out the two-day meet. The sports on the calendar were commonplace: netball (similar to U.S. basketball), snooker, archery, table tennis, javelin throwing, shot-putting and swimming. The manner of competition, though, was singular. Each of the 200 contestants was a paraplegic, denied the use of his lower body and forced to remain in a wheelchair for life. Some players were so badly crippled that the table-tennis paddles had to be strapped to their hands...
...hour after irradiation, the dogs were placed in the Skinner Box for their usual hour work-period. The canines discriminated the light as before, remaining idue during the 10 minutes it was on. What followed next, though, was singular and unexpected. Not only would the animals refuse to work during the buzzer's blaring, but either stopped work before the buzzer sounded, or did not go to work after it stopped...
...against the forces he must fight." He continued, "I not only condemn the policies of Malan South Africa and of all colonial powers--of Britain in Malaya and South Africa, of France in Indo-China and Morocco--but I also say that besides being stupid they are singular by hopeless. They are going against invincible trends of history. These countries, after a few centuries of slumber are reawakening, and although Malan and others may slow them down, there is no one on earth who can stop them...
...Foreigner. A few steps behind walked the new Premier, Malenkov, in a huge black coat with grey fur collar. On his left, in a position of singular honor, strode not a Russian but a foreigner-Premier Chou En-lai of Red China, representing Mao. Flanking them walked the rest of Moscow's hierarchy, and behind them the diplomats and the plenipotentiaries of the satellites-Czechoslovakia's Gottwald, Hungary's Rakosi, Poland's Bierut and others. The procession halted and the pallbearers, headed by Malenkov, gently moved the coffin from the carriage. Silently the new leaders...