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...more practical idealism and intellect of the majority of the 18-21 bracket might possibly act as a much needed balance to the whim, superficiality and economic egotism of the present American voting public, a great many of whom are misinformed or, indeed, ignorant. Why not publish a cartoon of a mass of "adult" voters at a political picnic, gurgling free beer and goggling their devotion to an ambitious and ambiguous demagogue...
...chance, this year's draw bunched all these teams together and matched teams from the East, South and Midwest in the other bracket. If Harvard had won Tuesday it would have had to face one of the Western teams--probably a hard-hitting Brigham Young squad that narrowly lost to U.S.C...
...about six weeks, you begin to get a puzzlement in the group. The case-aide brings the best of intentions. Harvard students -- people in that age bracket, generally--bring a sense of omnipotence to their work: it is as a result of their good intentions that the patient will get well. It is as a result of somebody paying a little attention to him. Sometimes this actually works...
...might deny him the chance to win the job at all. As a multimillionaire by inheritance as well as by his own labors-his 42,507 shares of General Motors stock alone are worth $3,257,000-Knudsen regarded his failure to move to a higher salary bracket with comparative indifference. But he looked on a dead-end career with dread...
...income falls below a certain level. Under one proposal, a family paying no income tax (for example, a family of four with income of less than $3,000) would receive payments equal to the exemptions and deductions it would be credited with if it were in a tax-paying bracket. As Miller sees it, a householder with no income whatsoever "would receive a basic allowance related to the size and composition of the family unit...