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...that speech in 1958, he might well have dismissed Mills's words on taxes as pro-business blathering. To many liberal economists of just a few years ago, economic sluggishness was a result of insufficient demand; the remedies were increased Government spending, deeper deficits, and possibly a bottom-bracket...
...seat County Stadium, and the Packers' share of the full house on their away games. Green Bay can afford to be generous with its champions. Packers' salaries are among the highest in the league: raw rookies get $8.000; half a dozen players are in the $20.000 bracket. And there is plenty of frosting on the cake. Last year's championship playoff was worth $5,500 to each man on the Packer squad; this year the winner's share will probably hit $7,000. The Packers get free life insurance (minimum policy: $10.000) and a free medical...
...over all his Government salaries to charity. Though Knebel's financial profile did not say so, Kennedy received about $400,000 in salary from 1947, when he entered Congress, to the pay period ending Oct. 21, 1962. Since his wealth already placed him in the 90% income-tax bracket, his taxes on that amount would have been $360,000. Thus, presuming that Kennedy took tax deductions for his charities, his donations cost him $40,000 out of pocket...
...search of Lebensraum with a view, affluent West Germans in the past few years have swarmed across Europe on the biggest Iand-buying spree in their history. Germans have become Europe's heaviest buyers of vacation homes in virtually every bracket, ranging from a department store tycoon's $1,000,000 pleasure dome on Cap d'Antibes to $1,500 cottages on the Mediterranean that are advertised as "your own castle in Spain." Though the stock market and their economy have leveled off, West German entrepreneurs are going ahead with plans to build new homes and hotels...
...hired help are corporate attorneys, who begin straight out of law school at an average $6,552 a year and scale steadily up to $22,392 as chiefs of their legal departments. Engineers do better as beginners, at $6,708, but not quite so well when they become top-bracket veterans, averaging...