Word: caplining
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...said that "our deadly malady is a disappearing supply of the creative resource," while at Pomona Ambassador (to Mexico) Fulton Freeman saw students "coming into creative citizenship at a fascinating moment in history." Columnist James Reston, at Brandeis, deplored "poverty beyond understanding or excuse," and Internal Revenue Boss Mortimer Caplin, speaking at St. Michael's in Vermont, sternly disapproved "the excesses of expense-account living...
Even with the new low withholding rates, it was a drag to raise five children on a Government salary of $21,000 a year, and so Mortimer Caplin, 47, finally resigned as Internal Revenue Commissioner, to return to practicing tax law in Washington...
...course there is Cassius Clay. The present tense still applies to cassius, but only because his proposed October might with Sonny has been postponed--until February of next year at the earliest. Sonny, the former sharecropper, is now a millionaire, and Mortimer Caplin has made it unprofitable for millionaires to fistfight three times a year...
...that Andrew Fischer now milks by hand for his five older children to baby shoes and a fur-trimmed coat for Mrs. Fischer. Through its chamber of commerce, Aberdeen decided to build a $100,000 house for the Fischers. And as the loot piled up, Income Tax Boss Mortimer Caplin reminded his agents that all such unsolicited gifts, for which the Fischers performed no service, were taxfree. But taxes would be due on a $75,000 Saturday Evening Post contract for short-term magazine and TV rights...
...trim their entertainment budgets. "The major damage has already been done," says Fred Hayman, resident manager of the Beverly-Hilton Hotel. "As a result of the initial crackdown, many big corporations tightened the expenses of their employees, and they are not about to liberalize them again." If so, Caplin has won some powerful allies to help him take the cheating out of the expense account...