Word: assessorized
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Shrewd as he is on most business dealings, even Carlsberg can come out second best in some real estate matters. Convinced that the $18,000 annual property-tax bill on his palatial marble-columned home in Bel Air was too steep, he recently paid a visit to the tax assessor to complain. After looking into the matter, the assessor agreed that there was an error; he raised Carlsberg's bill...
Horne recalls that it was her father, an assessor and sometime tenor, who first recognized her talents. "He'd let me go out and play evenings," she says, "but then he'd be waiting for me at the piano when I came in." She went to Europe in 1956 and rose through the apprentice shops of Germany and Italy. She especially remembers arriving in the small German village of Erkenschwick to find that the theater had no dressing rooms. She and the rest of the cast changed in the bus. "The whole town cheered...
...meat at Haymarket to explanations about how government surveillance operates." In three recent issues, Phoenix published a long, comprehensive report on real estate profiteering and the resulting urban problems in Cambridge. As Phoenix sees it, the villains are Harvard University, M.I.T. and the city's chief tax assessor, among others...
...Vienna, educated in England as well as Israel, and as a foreign correspondent lived in Washington, Bonn and Warsaw. He is therefore a cosmopolite who believes that "it is extremely hard"-and extremely important-"for one man to understand the nationalism of another." As such, Elon is a tough assessor of his own visions...
Obvious Abuses. Inexplicable inconsistencies abound. Pennsylvania exempts properties owned by the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, but the Elks, Moose, Eagles and Masons must pay taxes on their properties. The Lutheran Church's profit-making Augsburg Publishing House in Minneapolis is exempt, but Nashville's assessor has denied exemption to similar publishing enterprises of Methodists, Baptists and Seventh-day Adventists. The Holiday Inns at Greenville and Boaz, Ala., pay no taxes because the municipalities own them. The University of Michigan earns a tidy income from Willow Run Airport, on which it pays no property taxes; Michigan...