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Jumping Prices. As legislators at the capitol in Concord battle over whether to institute a state income tax (New Hampshire is the only state without either a general sales or an income tax), there is little that the presidential candidates can say about such local issues. How can they soothe Annette Picard, widow of the police chief of Peterboro, when she complains that her property tax is now $1,000 a year? "I could sell the house and rent an apartment, but I don't want...
Died. Sinclair Weeks, 78, crack Republican fund raiser who became President Eisenhower's Commerce Secretary; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Concord, Mass. The son of a Boston financier, Weeks was a G.O.P. stalwart throughout the party's lean '30s and '40s and served as treasurer of the Republican National Committee during the war. In 1952 Weeks raised $6,000,000 for the campaign. As a Cabinet officer (1953-58), he was best known for his successful advocacy of the Administration's multibillion-dollar highway program and his support of U.S. investments abroad...
...elder Coles also urged his son to "learn to be by yourself." Bob followed that advice. He enjoys life, and his hearty laugh often sounds through his modest Concord, Mass., house. But his brother observes: "He is a predominantly inward person. The whole course of his career is solitary. He is not a joiner, and he is not into the social thing." Bob himself confirms this. "I don't work with anyone except my wife, and that stems from my oneness, or aloneness." That desire for solitary enjoyment extends even to tennis; Coles plays only singles, never doubles. Besides working...
Houton, a 42-year-old widow, makes $115 a week as a housekeeper at City Hall, and brings home $85. Fourteen per cent of this take-home pay ($619) goes to property taxes, while McGovern claims that persons in Milton, Lexington and Concord pay only two per cent of this figure and get better schools...
...Vietnamese parties will settle the question of Vietnamese armed forces in South Vietnam in a spirit of national concord, equality, and mutual respect, without foreign interference, in accordance with the postwar situation and with a view to lightening the people's contribution...