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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tennis team finished third in an 18-team field at the ECAC fall tournament at Princeton. Don Pompan lost in the semifinals of the "A" singles bracket to Princeton's Adam Cioth. Scott Walker and Kevin Shaw lost in the finals of the "A" doubles to Tigers Leif Shiras and Jay Lapides...
Sophomores Don Pompan and Jim Curley will take the A bracket spots with sophomore Bob Horne joining Shaw for the B draw. In the C slots surprise senior Dick Arnos and freshman John Bridgeland piled up challenge victories to earn the singles positions...
...this includes couples of all ages with some of the spouses working only part-time. Yet there is a powerful and growing subgroup: moneyed, self-indulgent, career-oriented families in which the husbands are in their mid-20s to mid-30s. Of the 11 million families in this age bracket, nearly four million are households where the wife has a full-time job. And many of the multiple-earner families have combined incomes of $30,000-and occasionally much more...
...Laker beckon? Just about anyone, according to TIME'S Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, who monitored the cornbelt caravan, part of it on a borrowed ten-speed Gitane bike. The Ragbrai army, he reports, comes from all over the U.S. and from every way of life and income bracket. On the road, its members fall into five loose categories...
Undeniably, a cut in the capital gains tax below the present top rate of 49% would help mainly people in (or above) the 50% tax bracket, who are more likely to own stock and other assets. To be in that lofty bracket, one needs taxable income of about $40,000 or more. But a lot of "average" taxpayers leap into the higher brackets a few times in their lives-when they sell a house, a farm, or the stock that Aunt Tillie left them; or when they collect profit-sharing or stock-purchase funds from their employers. For them...