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Donald John Alderson '49 of Milton; Remi Jere Cadoret '49 of Scranton, Pennsylvania; Robert Carswell '49 of Brooklyn, New York; Ernest Frank Chase, Jr. '50 of Cambridge; Melvin Abbott Conant, Jr. '46 of Cambridge; Burton Spencer Dreben '49, of St. Louis; Alan Howard Friedman '49 of Brooklyn, New York York; John Henry Hagan, Jr. '49 of Port Chester, New York; Richard Haven '50 of Welfeboreo, New Hampshire; John William James '50 of Birghton: Richard Paul Janaor '49, of Medford; Edward Ellsworth Jones '49 of Buffalo, New York; Alvin Kahn '49 of Upper Montclair, New Jerscy; Louis Frederick Klein...
Harvard skiers who placed in the first ten were: third, Larrie Griffin; fourth, captain elect Rod Nordblom; fifth, captain Graham Taylor; seventh, Gordy Abbott; and eighth, Don Justus...
Canadians who had waited two years for the government to take another slice off their high-level wartime taxes got good news last week. In his budget speech, Finance Minister Doug Abbott announced that the government would reduce its revenue from income taxes by 32%. Accordingly, he took 750,000 taxpayers off the lists by raising the exemptions from $750 to $1,000 for a single person and from $1,500 to $2,000 for a married couple with no children.* For those who still had to pay, the rates were trimmed. The new rates and exemptions would be retroactive...
...Abbott also announced a cut in some corporate taxes, then set about wiping out or paring down excise and luxury taxes. The 15% travel tax on plane and rail fares and the tax on sleeping-car berths were dropped. So were taxes on long-distance telephone calls, telegrams, soda pop, gum and candy. The 25% tax on jewelry was shifted from retailer to wholesaler and reduced to 10% (immediate effect: retail stocks of jewelry were tax-free...
Summing up, Doug Abbott reported that the budget was planned to show a surplus of $202 million next year. In an election year like this one, it was also planned to catch plenty of votes...