Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 taxpayers. "We might not examine one out of 100-one out of 1,000-of the 1040-A returns," he explains. "They are wage earners and take standard deduction...
...tall, spare, compulsive horseplayer named Ernest Havemann, that was reason enough to abandon temporarily the mission that had brought him cross-country to Los Angeles. He caught the next plane south. He had been to the Mexican race track many times before, usually in the same noble cause: a crack at the track's 5-10 pool, a lush bale of lettuce divided among bettors who have picked the most winners in the fifth through the tenth races.* Havemann invested $96 in an array of 48 likely combinations, and kissed his money goodbye. But it was Ernie Havemann...
...deliberately admit a number of students who are not objectively qualified" says President Barnaby Keeney of hard-to-crack Brown University, expressing the Ivy League's growing doubts about pure grades as the gauge of who gets in. Keeney wants to find out what kind of "academic risk" is really worth betting...
...Manhattan) in the 1930s and '40s, suave, Russian-born Morros was contacted in 1943 by the Soviets, who used his father as a hostage; he pretended to turn Communist, for years endured snubs and abuse from his fellow citizens while quietly collecting information for the FBI that helped crack Convicted Traitor Jack Soble's atom spy ring. Said Morros after it was all over: "I had to do more realistic acting than any of the players I ever directed in Hollywood...
...visit a family in England. She falls in love with the son, Robin, but is put off by his flawless British manners, his utter imperturbability, "this sandpapering of every word and gesture until it exactly fits its place in the conversation." Robin's true emotions can not crack his polished exterior...