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Businessmen are always grumbling about rising taxes, but they rarely make good on threats to take their firms out of town to avoid the bite. Last week, to escape a new 50-per-share city tax on stock transactions, the Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington Stock Exchange abruptly began moving to the suburbs from its imposing quarters in downtown Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Beating the Tax Bite | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...senter of the ferst Congrigasionale Chirch picknic with the wimmen timing back summersets an having spells. wonce in a wile tho, it seams funny, four xample: "July 27, 186-rany and thunderry. i always thought a girl with red hair and frekles wood taist jest like dandylions when you bite them, i meen of course bite the dandylions. i meen when you kiss the girl, i dont know, some day i am going to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Taist of Frekles | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...bulging surpluses of eggs, pork, wheat, apples and practically all other foods. The cost of underwriting the cornucopia reached $4.5 billion in 1968, and could mount to $10 billion by 1980. As trade unions, consumer groups and other proponents of farm reform point out, that is quite a bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Market: The Farmer's Dutch Uncle | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...subject said: "I realize why they took our watches. There was a sense of the past disappearing, as happens when you're driving too long without sleeping. It was the same tonight with eating a sandwich. I'd look down and discover that I'd just taken a bite, but I hadn't noticed it at the time," Another: "Time seemed very drawn out. I'd keep forgetting what I was doing, especially on the first test, but somehow, every time the critical letter came up, I found myself pushing the button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Effects of Marijuana | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...recruits. Whenever the action flags, he stiffly strings the players before the footlights, as if for a military inspection. Even so, the players almost undo the damage. Sorrell Booke's three parts are written as caricatures of middle age, but at least he renders the caricatures with the bite of David Levine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Three Authors in Search of an Act | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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