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...must vote. "You don't want a man to operate on you who just skims his medical books," said Judd. a former Mayo Clinic fellow. Nor does Judd want to spend time and energy on a strenuous re-election campaign in his recently reapportioned district, which formerly con sisted of safely conservative South Min neapolis and now includes the heavily Democratic labor wards on the city's north side. "I don't know that you can get elected in the present situation unless you are willing to work day and night for it," he said...
...Government bonds, etc. to a 20% withholding tax; 2) offer tax deduc tions of up to 7% for business investment in machinery and other productive equip ment, 3% for public utilities; 3) require that expenditures for entertainment, amusement and recreation be deductible only if directly related to the active con duct of a trade or business; 4) tighten up tax regulations for mutual savings banks, savings and loan associations, coops, and Americans investing or living abroad...
...What Buttons to Push." Under con tract terms, Buckley will produce one column weekly, entitled "A Conservative Voice," for Sunday publication. The voice of conservatism is delighted at the chance to holler for his cause. "Conservatism," says he, "is very much alive and getting more so all the time. It's a marvelous reaction against the welfare state. Cuba, Belgrade and Russian testing enhanced the trend. So does Kennedy, who doesn't have the remotest idea of what to do, what buttons to push in that wonderful technical apparatus he is heading. And before long that liberal monopoly...
down. He and Jacques, he said, were not merely seeking adventure. "On the con trary," he insisted, "I wish to show that the bathyscaphe is a dependable scien tific device in which the father of a family may entrust himself without anxiety." He raised no objections when in 1960 Jacques cruised the good ship Trieste to the bot tom of the Marianas Trench, the deepest known place in the ocean, where the water pressure at 37,800 ft. is eight tons per square inch...
...U.M.W., a federal district court de cided, had used its power to discriminate against a small company (Tennessee's de funct Phillips Brothers Coal Co.) in favor of the big West Kentucky Coal Co., con trol of which had been acquired by Cleve land Industrialist Cyrus Eaton with mon ey lent him by the U.M.W. welfare fund...