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...avoid an even bigger land bust than in the '20s, concludes HOUSE & HOME, cities and towns must act fast. Most experts agree that "the first point of attack should be to ease the too-heavy tax burden on houses and other improvements, multiply the too-easy tax load on unimproved land, and make the unearned increment in land prices provide much more of the taxes needed to provide the streets, water, sewers and schools without which unimproved land would be neither livable nor salable...
...catch the vitality and range of Shakespeare for the cover, Artist Aaron Bohrod turned to Shakespeare's characters, who this summer are speaking more lines than ever in more places than ever. Deployed in the midsummer's night sky around the bust of their creator are 24 characters who belong to the ages. While brushing up on your Shakespeare, see how many you can identify. The illustrations on this page are from a puckish little number called "Shakespeare on TIME," published by the Promotion Department in connection with the appearance of this week's cover story...
...appliance industry's problem is not so much a slump as a boom that failed to get off. As one G.E. applianceman explained: "Everybody was elated about the sensational golden '60s that were going to bust wide-open. We got a little over-optimistic." Production cutbacks are the or der of the day. Frigidaire last week laid off 1,150 Dayton-plant employees indefinitely. This week G.E.'s vast $300 million Appliance Park plant in Louisville shut down its refrigerator division for a week, laid off 4,500 workers. This month it will close its large home...
...Nationalist China capital of Taipei, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek unveiled a bronze bust of China's good friend and defender, Lieut. General Claire Chennault, the original Flying Tiger, dead since 1958. The likeness, catching the essence of Chennault's leathery, steel-spined courage, is in a children's playground and faces Chiang's official mansion. Cabled the President of the U.S.: "While his mortal remains lie among those of America's soldiers of all wars [in Arlington National Cemetery], his spirit is memorialized today in Free China...
...Kennedy 1,558), but mostly he exploited the farmers' strong anti-Benson feeling by trumpeting Kennedy's early farm votes for Benson programs. Supporters of Adlai Stevenson in Madison shifted to Humphrey and helped carry Dane County for him. Humphrey's labor strength was a bust, but he was cheered by results from Milwaukee's three Negro wards, where he won by a 2-to-1 margin. "If you're talking about blocs," crowed Humphrey, "the Negro's a much bigger bloc nationally than labor...