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...leaving prices to find their own level in a free market. The present controlled price of $1.47 per 1,000 cu. ft. is too low to lure enough gas out of the ground-as witness last winter's factory and school closings. A move to deregulate has run afoul of an on-again, off-again filibuster by Senators from states that rely heavily on low gas prices. The most likely compromise will be an increase in the regulated price, perhaps to just over...
Deductions for mortgage interest would be restricted, but not in a way to bother the vast majority of homeowners. Deductions would be limited to $10,000 of interest a year; at present rates, a homeowner would have to be carrying a mortgage of about $110,000 before he ran afoul of that provision...
Still, in nearly 50 years in publishing, Cerf never fell afoul of an author as severely as did his first boss in publishing, Horace Liveright. Just as he was about to leave for California in the '20s, Liveright persuaded Theodore Dreiser to let him try to sell An American Tragedy to the movies - with Liveright to get the agent's commission. Dreiser, who was convinced that no one would nibble, readily agreed...
...continuing dialogue with blacks, discussing their problems and busing in children from the black townships to play with their own. Another group of women, most of them white, called the Black Sash, has demonstrated against "unjust" laws for many years and runs advice offices to help Africans who run afoul of the pass laws (the regulations that require blacks to carry identity papers at all times and restrict their movements). Most South African businessmen are convinced that blacks must be brought along farther and faster in the economy. There have been some changes in "petty apartheid." Whites boast that "international...
...Arabs have a number of complaints. During the ten years of occupation, West Bankers say, they have consistently been subjected to mass arrests for security violations, interrogation under torture, sudden deportation, communal punishment for individual offenses (TIME, May 30). Even those who have not run afoul of Israeli military discipline chafe under a regime they find capricious and humiliating. Complains Tayseer Kanaan, who was Jerusalem's chief judge in the time of Jordanian rule: "Even my tax and phone bills are in Hebrew. It makes me feel illiterate; I have to go to someone else to find out what...