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Helping Righteousness. Despite the tax code's complexities and invitations to cheat, Commissioner Caplin thinks the U.S. taxpayer behaves remarkably well by world standards. "No other country in the world," he says, "can approach the percentage of citizens who pay taxes promptly, report all their income, and take only the allowable deductions." But Caplin is not a man to sit back and hope that righteousness will prevail unassisted by enforcement. He has warned taxpayers that the IRS would crack down, for example, on the art-donation loophole. And he has intensified IRS scrutiny of returns submitted by high income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: Enter Balance Due Here | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...Wheatstone Bridge-double differential-CH3C6H2(NO2)3-set. These people are mere cogs, automata; they simply feel to make sure you've punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcards. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Grader Replies | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...release of energies. All of the effort and imagination now devoted to tax avoidance could be devoted instead to more economically constructive purposes. The misallocated resources now deflected by tax considerations could flow into more productive channels. The advantages now accruing to the ingenious tax avoider and the outright cheat would largely disappear. The corrosive fog of sordidness and pettiness that emanates from the present tax structure would be blown away by a bracing breeze of equity. The U.S. would be a more dynamic?and a more moral ?nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: An Idea on the March | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

David (Keir Dullea) is a 17-year-old boy with a high IQ and an obsessive-compulsive neurosis. He lives in morbid horror of dirt, in insane ambition to stop time and so cheat death, in panic dread that someday someone may touch him-"because a touch can kill." Lisa (Janet Margolin) is a 15-year-old girl with soft brown eyes and schizophrenia. She is split into two well-defined personalities. As Lisa she is a silly four-year-old who talks all the time but only in a "word salad" seasoned with rhyme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Children in Darkness | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...elder statesman, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, leader of the conservative Swatantra Party, demanded that Nehru fire Menon as De fense Minister and take over the post himself. He charged that India's defense policy "has proved to be a miserable failure. It is meaningless to accuse the enemy of cheating-it's the enemy's business to cheat." Rajaji mourned that India stood alone: "All our neighbors are either against us or have lost confidence in us. Our foreign policy has failed by any test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: We Were Out of Touch with Reality | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

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