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BIGGEST TAX BITE in world is in West Germany, where taxes take 34% of gross national product, v. 29% in Great Britain, 26% in U.S. But a new British study shows top-bracket earners in Germany keep 47% of earnings, v. only...
...pupils: Bobby and Ted Kennedy), authority on taxation and corporate law, and civic leader; he turned his Charlottesville basement playroom into an emergency classroom for schoolchildren during the "massive resistance" period in 1958, when Virginia closed its public schools. Long a proponent of tax reform, Caplin favors cutting upper-bracket income taxes to 65%, lower-bracket taxes...
Cornell had two other players in the tournament both of whom showed definite ability. Nevertheless, the true demonstration of squash power in New York was accomplished by Yale which put four men into the eight-contestant quarter-final bracket. With this sort of superiority, Yale will be hard to defeat this year, unless freak injuries remove most of the top nine players or the Crimson continues the improvement it has shown thus for this year...
Before Gunsmoke came along to stun the child mind, there must have been a bad moment in the youth of every American now in the cardiac bracket when he realized that Buffalo Bill was a bit of a fraud. He simply could not have done all the heroic things that he claimed to have done. Today's child will probably be surprised to learn that Buffalo Bill was not a phony-or just a legend like Paul Bunyan -but a real man, and an intelligent and able one at that...
...juniors, Ed Greitzer, a junior, will start in the 122-pound division, followed by classmate George Doub, wrestling at 130 pounds. Estabrook holds the 137-lb. and in the 147-lb, class will be Steve Astor. The two other first string juniors are Ernie Edmundson in the 167-lb, bracket and Red Grant, wrestling the unlimited-weight class...