Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drug distribution. The organized criminal, said the President, "corrupts our governing institutions and subverts our democratic processes. For him, the moral and legal subversion of our society is a lifelong and lucrative profession." The Government's traditionally oblique line of attack used to be income tax violations, but big-time hoodlums have learned to keep their books in order. In the last few years, therefore, law-enforcement officials have been trying a variety of different approaches. Three-all endorsed by Nixon-seem particularly inventive and promising...
...Senators talk that way; but if they sound like little-leaguers, they are playing like big-leaguers for a change. Last week, though they were hardly a pennant threat, they were holding their own in the tough Eastern division. No one is prouder of the new Senators than Williams. "They're picking and packing and booming and banging. They look great." So does Williams. He is making believers out of all the cynics who predicted that he would be back bonefishing by midseason. "I'm not going to quit and neither are my 25 ballplayers," he says...
Treasury officials insist that the two schemes would have imposed tax liability on nearly all of the 155 taxpayers who paid nothing in 1967 despite incomes that exceeded $200,000. Even so, Mills and other Congressmen criticized the Administration for proposing no curbs on big incomes derived from lightly taxed capital gains or tax-free interest on state and local bonds. Walker defended the omissions. Higher taxes on capital gains might cripple private investment and so require more study, he said; and there are constitutional questions about Washington's right to tax municipal securities...
Harvard's varsity tennis team will host Cornell this afternoon at home at 2 p.m. The netmen defeated the Big Red last year, 8-1, and should have little more difficulty this season. The only way a close match could develop is if the Crimson is looking past Cornell to contests with Army tomorrow and Navy Monday...
...undeniable mark of Calkins' school board record is his commitment to standard "liberal" causes. In his action on the school board, in his intricately-designed tax plans, and especially in is testimony before Congress, he has pleaded for more money to let the big cities meet their crying ghetto needs...