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Shultz would eliminate several widely used deductions and exclusions-gasoline taxes, sick pay, the first $100 of dividends received-and permit deductions for medical and casualty expenses only if they exceeded 5% of gross income. A blanket $500 miscellaneous deduction would be substituted. Form 1040 itself would be replaced by a new form 10405, on which a taxpayer could report income received from interest, rent and capital gains without having to fill out the maze of additional schedules now required...
...father's prison letters, some photographs, including a closely guarded one of himself at age eleven, standing proudly in a cowboy hat beneath the cloudbuster. There is an old, well-kept Winchester carbine that his father, who was fond of guns, gave him. There is also an orgone blanket. Roughly 2 ft. by 3 ft., it is simply a layer of natural wool backed with steel wool that is kept in place by a fine mesh screen. "I used it recently on a cut finger and it healed quickly," says Peter. He also practices a few other Reichian techniques...
...economically. To avoid a uranium "crunch," President Nixon has ordered development by the 1980s of a new type of reactor called the fast-breeder, a name derived from its unique capability: during the chain reaction, surplus neutrons from the atoms of U-235 in its core bombard a surrounding blanket of U-238, a much more plentiful but nonfissionable form of uranium, and transmute large amounts of it into plutonium. This fissionable byproduct can then be used as a fuel in other breeders. Thus breeders should be able to stretch existing uranium supplies for several centuries. One big drawback...
...epicenter stood a somber and shaken Richard Nixon, facing one of his gravest crises. Forced by events to concede that his earlier blanket denials of White House involvement had been wrong, he finally dropped the pretense of being untouched by it all. Either he had been inexcusably remiss in not pressing an earlier, deeper investigation of the matter, or he had been amazingly naive in trusting his aides' protestations of innocence?despite repeated evidence in news reports to the contrary?or he had been a willing party to their deception. Either way, he could not escape heavy responsibility. Despite...
...complete reversal by Nixon amounted to almost total capitulation to Ervin's insistence that no presidential aide is entitled to blanket immunity from congressional inquiry into wrongdoing. But the matter could become academic, at least for a while. Ervin conceded that if key witnesses...