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...Distillers Co., which made Distaval under license from its West German originators. It awarded David $49,920 and Richard $30,720. (At the request of Mr. Justice Hinchcliffe, the family surnames were not published.) Hinchcliffe explained that he had tried the cases together because David represented the most serious bracket of deformities and Richard the middle range...
...best movies), she learned as a researcher and Los Angeles correspondent for TIME from 1953 to 1966 to double-check her facts. She now earns nearly $50,000 from the Times and the syndicate, but claims, weepishly, that this only puts her and Husband Doug into a higher tax bracket, so "the column is really an indulgence." Still, she has just indulged herself further by signing to do another column for Motion Picture magazine for an additional $12,000 a year...
...exempt local bonds reached new peaks. Cobb County, Ga., for example, paid 6.49% interest to float an issue. A block of Government-guaranteed local public-housing bonds was offered to investors at a record annual yield of 5.55%. For a person in the 50% federal income-tax bracket, that is the equivalent of an 11% return before taxes on ordinary stocks or bonds...
Eckerd, who estimates his wealth at "roughly $50 million," believes that people in his income bracket should be more heavily taxed. To help share his own fortune, he has formed a foundation that operates an 880-acre camp for emotionally disturbed boys. "I wanted to invest in people rather than buildings," he explains. To lighten the burden for retired persons on fixed incomes, Eckerd set up a nonprofit Senior Citizen Club; its members qualify for discounts at his drugstores. For his cherished employees, he is working out the details of a more unusual plan. Under it, Eckerd would place...
Uncertainties abound in the publishing business, but one fact seems tantalizingly obvious: there are millions of potential readers for publications aimed at the 18-to-25 age bracket. But how to reach them? One method is to hire professionals to turn out smooth articles in hip lingo in a psychedelic or Art Nouveau layout ("Talking to kids in their own language," it's called). Cheetah and Eye magazines tried that - and folded...