Word: brackets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young man who had licked BMEWS was a natural to tackle the moon. But at RCA, Holmes was making about $50,000 a year, plus the liberal fringe benefits (expense account,, stock options) with which successful corporations beguile high-bracket help. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration could offer him full command of all U.S. manned space flight, including Jack Kennedy's promised voyage to the moon−and a salary deeply cut to $21,000 a year...
Short (5 ft. 8 in.) and bowlegged. Rod Laver is not in the same bracket with Don Budge. The son of a Queensland sheepherder, he is temperamental, easily thrown off stride by the bad breaks of a match. He lacks the cannonlike power of a Hoad or the dexterity of a Rosewall. Instead, he relies on craftiness and a unique ability to reset his wrist in mid-stroke-just before contact with the ball -that permits him to hit the ball flat, give it top spin, or impart a low-bouncing underspin. At Wimbledon last week, everything worked...
...Chamber of Commerce called for an immediate tax cut, even if it meant a budget deficit in the coming year-which it certainly would. Said Chamber President H. Ladd Plumley: "It's worth the cost." Less surprisingly, the Chamber wanted the cuts concentrated on corporations and upper-bracket individuals, because it believes that encouraging investment in plant and equipment is more important to economic growth right now than spurring consumer spending. Estimated cost of the Chamber cut: $7 billion to $10 billion...
Ignoring the gibes of colleagues. Geneticist Glen McBride of Australia's University of Queensland perched for two years on the fences of pigpens. By listening to the oinks and grunts of teen-age swine (8 to 16-week age bracket), he hoped to fathom their social order, to learn how to make them more comfortable and faster growing. He failed, mostly because the young swine were made into hams and bacon before he got to know them well...
...Within the Treasury Department there was talk that the corporate tax rate might be chopped from 52% to 50% or less, that the rate on the first $1,000 of taxable personal income might be cut from 20% to 15%. and the present 91% rate paid by top-bracket taxpayers might be sliced as low as 65%. So vague were the Administration's plans, however, that estimates of the total savings to taxpayers ranged from $2 billion to $5 billion. It will be the first cut in U.S. income taxes since...