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That tax loophole allows "educational" and other nonprofit groups to escape any Government bite on their publishing income. Caplin is not alone in his complaint. Democratic Congressman John Schmidhauser of Iowa has been prodding the IRS and the Treasury Department for months, pleading with them to tap a source of revenue he estimates at $110 million yearly. The stalling, suggested Schmidhauser in a House speech, comes from senior bureaucrats' "unwillingness to step on powerful toes." Republican Glenn Cunningham of Nebraska made it a bipartisan fight. "This is no matter on which reasonable men can differ," said...
...least at the Charles Playhouse they do. Director Michael Murray has taken this classic comedy with a moral bite and played it for broad laughter. Which it gets and deserves. But Murray and his actors (and for that matter, his designer, William Roberts) sometimes push too hard; the humor becomes heavy, and the moral sharpness disappears...
...Establishment" by dint of such seemingly inconsequential actions as lingering in Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland's office one morning a few years ago to sip bourbon with him. "Teddy's more casual," says Fred Holborn, a White House aide under J.F.K. "Ask Teddy to put more bite into a speech, and he'll refuse, saying...
...disease produces high fever, delirium, and painfully swollen lymph glands form dark discolorations called buboes; death follows massive internal bleeding. People infected with the most virulent, pneumonic form can infect others by sneezing. The villain is a bacillus, Pasteurella pestis, which thrives in rats, the fleas that bite them, and humans exposed to either pest. Destroying fleas and keeping rats from migrating curb the plague, but Viet Nam's fleas have grown more resistant to available insecticides; and, for example, there are only four quarantine inspectors to see that busy harbor ships keep a constant guard against invading rats...
Bennett was a child of the Midland slums, the son of a domineering and ambitious pawnbroker father who eventually became a fairly prosperous solicitor. Handicapped by a stammer that in childhood made him jerk epileptically and bite the air, he grew up painfully shy and covered his shyness with the show-off's mantle. He was as frugal as a ragpicker, carefully kept a record of each shilling tip, constantly worried about money...