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...income tax anyway). But during the next two years, it will pump increases of $1 billion into schools, $900 million into medical education, $528 million into roads and $525 million into health and welfare spending. Wisconsin will use $62.5 million of its surplus ($437 million for the 1977-78 biennium) to fund programs to reduce water pollution, and Arizona might spend part of its $26 million surplus on sprucing up the outmoded state prison, the scene of several riots and killings...
...Illinois, Democratic Governors and Republican legislatures have long been unable to agree on basic tax changes, turned instead to a hodgepodge of sales, racetrack, gas, liquor, cigarette and utility taxes. Welfare costs are soaring, some $200 million more are needed in the coming biennium, but no agreement on enacting an income tax seems possible...
Washington's Albert Dean Rosellini, 49, son of an immigrant Italian grocer, was a freewheeling Seattle criminal lawyer and 18-year state senator, won his four-year term in 1956. His overoptimism on tax estimates, plus the recession, ran up a $48 million deficit in his first biennium, which he dealt with in this year's legislature-Democratic in both houses by the largest majority since New Deal days-by pushing through tax boosts that set off a short-lived taxpayer revolt. In Protestant-majority Washington, Rosellini shivers at the fear of a Catholic presidential candidate calling attention...
...still going up. But that, says Long, is only part of the answer. "For one thing," he points out in the current issue of the Johns Hopkins Magazine, "state universities-which put little reliance on endowments, and in some cases get more money from their legislatures in a single biennium than the entire wealth accumulated by Hopkins since 1875-have pushed up salaries no faster than private institutions." Besides, in the 1940s, with the help of the Federal Government, "the universities took in more purchasing power per teacher but paid him less." The difference was spent on buildings, maintenance...
Beside that ardently swelling literary bosom, the lean, taut, fidgety figure of the author of Main Street, Babbitt and Arrowsmith might seem a little out of place and even a little out of date. For a decade Lewis had favored U.S. readers with a book almost every biennium, but his last important work had been done in the beginning of the '30s. If Cass Timberlane now acquired new importance, that was chiefly due to the fact that the hundreds of thousands of men & women who would read his new novel had, while he was writing it, made...