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...third group being re-evaluated is made of 3-A "extreme hardship" cases, including Actor George Hamilton, 27, Lynda Bird Johnson's boy friend, who has been exempt on grounds of being the sole support of his four-times divorced mother. Hamilton and some others in this bracket have been ordered to report for physicals and possible reclassification. (Fathers, also classified 3-A, continue to be exempt...
Temporary Blindness. Only minutes after he emerged from Gemini's open hatch, Astronaut Gordon was in trou ble. Though he had done nothing more than detach a cosmic-ray counter from the spacecraft's hull and mount a movie camera on a bracket behind the hatch, his heart was beating wildly, he was bathed in perspiration and panting for breath. "I've got to rest a minute," he gasped. "I'm pooped." After regaining his breath, he inched forward to Gemini's nose, which was securely locked in the docking collar of the Agena target...
...last week postponed a $25 million offer of sewer and water bonds, and Baltimore failed to obtain a single bid on a $31.8 million issue because the city set an interest limit of 41% - the equivalent of a 9% taxable investment for a man in the 50% income tax bracket. After housing, bond men forecast, civic improvements may well become the next big victim of high-priced money...
...prove his point. Under Merrill Lynch encouragement?to the tune of $400,000?the University of Chicago's Center for Research in Security Prices recently studied all stock-price changes since 1926, carried out 56,558,000 computerized transactions. Result: a long-term profit that varied according to tax bracket: a tax-exempt institution would have earned 9% per year on its investment since 1926; an individual in the $10,000-a-year bracket, 8.2%; and one in the $50,000-a-year bracket...
...covered up by the wave," says Bruce Brown, a blond, 28-year-old Californian who probably qualifies as the world's foremost exponent of pleasure before business. A Bergman of the boards, Brown makes his pleasures pay, and has pushed his income into a fun-filled six-figure bracket as producer, director, narrator and promoter of documentary movies about the idle life...