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Record interest rates set best-laid plans agley...
...Revolt Committee in Miami last fall and set out to halve the county property tax rate, to $4 per $1,000 of assessed value. He gathered 15,000 signatures to put the proposition on the ballot next month. But the best laid schemes of tax revolutionaries gang aft agley. Because of a whopper of an error, Wilson's petition stated the proposed new rate as 4 mills per $1,000, meaning, for example, that the tax on a $100,000 house would be only 40?, rather than the $400 that he intended...
...Nazis' scheme is to smuggle to the Soviets lists of Britons who have supported the German war effort. Their hope is to inflame Stalin's deep distrust of his allies. The plan goes agley when the documents, hand-carried to Sweden, are used instead to blackmail English industrialists...
...Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, vacationing near Goose Prairie, Wash., who first sent agley the Army's well-laid plans for dispatching reluctant reservists off to war. Douglas ordered the Pentagon to delay the departure to Viet Nam of 113 reservists attached to a supply company stationed at Fort Meade, Md. The group asked the full court to rule on the President's constitutional right to call them up in the first place. They will now remain in the U.S. until next month, when the court will determine whether it wants to hear their case...
...time," he says. He decided early not to design individual dwellings ("It seemed to me that the average house buyer must be a pain in the neck"). He made a notable exception when he designed his own home?and here one of his best-laid plans went completely agley...