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...hundred and seventy years ago this month, George Washington dispatched a force of 16,000 troops to put down the Whiskey Rebellion, an uprising of western Pennsylvania corn farmers against the federal excise tax on distillers. The rebellion was subdued, but the clamor against excise taxes-a form of national sales tax levied on certain goods and transactions-still goes on. Both businessmen and consumers have long considered the excise tax a bothersome burden. In this election year, the issue is one of the few on which both presidential candidates seem to agree: the Democratic platform pledges to eliminate many...
...against Jewish immigration and British rule, Foot "often idly wished to be on their side of the barricades instead of on the side of authority." Once, acting on an informer's tip, he pursued a rebel terrorist chief to a high mountain village, flushed him out of a corn bin, escorted him off to prison-and then characteristically appealed to the High Commissioner to spare his life. The Arabs were duly appreciative: Foot's name soon appeared at the top of the rebel assassination list...
...strains of Happy Days Are Here Again thundered from a giant pipe organ, and a 25-minute demonstration for Lyndon began. It had more noise (klaxons, foghorns, etc.) and color (yellow balloons, tiny parachutes with American flags, sunflower posters for Kansas, gold-foil sunbursts for California and real corn for Iowa) than most such orgies, but those outside the hall saw very little...
Martian Byplay. Actually, the sidelights occasionally proved more memorable than the speeches or the commentary from the pundits: the Iowa delegation, for example, proudly waving stalks of New Jersey corn; Mahalia Jackson's off-Key version of The Star-Spangled Banner; Pennsylvania Nonagenarian Emma Guffey Miller and her peppery complaints about the hall's crowded aisles. And then there was ABC's great moment, after ABC Commentator Hubert H. Humphrey had. been nominated for Vice President, when Ed Morgan turned to Howard K. Smith to say, "Well, Howard, we may not be the top network...
Indeed there were: some 320 towns in Byelorussia alone bore names like Roofless, Slobsville and Dirt; Abscess, Deviltry and Grief.* There was a place called Snout, and another called Corn-on-the-Foot. In the Pinsk district, such villages as Breadless, Emaciation, The Hungry One and The Thin One reflected dishonor on the good offices (and great girth) of the inventor of Goulash Communism himself, Nikita Khrushchev...