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Thus did the Administration bring out as solid policy a compensatory fiscal program (i.e., high taxes in good years with widespread debt retirement, lower taxes in baa years with added debt if necessary). To citizens haunted by the U.S.'s massive debt and tlie inflationary influences of an unbalanced budget, it looked good. But to politicians, a compensatory fiscal program has no campaign sex appeal. By election time Congressmen may decide that a tax cut is a better campaign approach...
...Palmolive Garbo" was David Selznick's epithet for his new property. The hard-veined, soft-souled gentlemen of the press felt differently. There was something about Miss Bergman-they clawed the air for adequate words-which made them coo and baa like fatuous old uncles. "Lunching with her," sighed Thornton Delehanty, "is like sitting down to an hour or so of conversation with a charming and highly intelligent orchid." An A.P. feature writer uttered the glad cry, "As unspoiled as a fresh Swedish snowfall." Bosley Crowther in the Times, after some startling lyricism involving a Viking's sweetheart...
...recently-formed Players' Theatre group is presenting a second weekend run of its musical take-off on the features and foibles of life in Beantown. Bolstered by the advantage of first--night experience and a week of hard work in which to apply the numerous lessons of that experience, "Baa Baa Back Bay" has a good chance to graduate from the mediocre to the mighty fine in its appearances tonight and tomorrow night...