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There was remarkable agreement on one point: everyone, it seemed, would love a tax cut. But how big? Or how soon? Or what taxpaying bracket should receive the biggest benefits? Or, most important, should taxes be slashed even while the Kennedy Administration is requesting $98.8 billion for fiscal 1964-with a projected $11.9 billion deficit...
...high school senior about to become a freshman at U.C.L.A.. where his major will be "kind of general, maybe I'll end up in business administration." With his fellows he stands "in a lump," distinguishable only by name, weight, hair coloring, and small variables within high-bracket Pasadena youth society...
There sits Buddha, face unfathomable, hooded eyes of blue ice, nose stubborn and strong. Lines like deep parentheses bracket his thin lips; beneath them is a small chin, and beneath that is a big chin. Five-and-a-half feet high, close to 200 lbs. wide, he is swathed in a cautious dark suit from which peeps an embroidered breast-pocket handkerchief with a monogram: R.J.D...
...same time, the celling for professors' salaries will be raised $1000 to $21,000. However, there will be no automatic increases for professors in the top bracket, President Pusey said; each case will be decided individually. The minimum for full professors remains...
...might not examine one out of 100-one out of 1,000-of the 1040-A returns," he explains. "They are wage earners and take standard deduction, and we get income information from their employers. But we would examine nine out of ten returns in the $100,000 bracket, and we would really zero in on returns that claim travel and entertainment expense...