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Nebraska has long bragged that it has neither a sales tax nor an income tax, relies upon a property tax. Yet, its School for the Deaf cannot meet minimum standards for the care of children, the University of Nebraska's College of Medicine is in danger of losing accreditation because of poor facilities, and the university insists that it needs to boost its budget by one-third. An income tax now is probable. New Jersey is so closely divided between the two major political parties that its Governors have long been afraid to risk defeat by suggesting either...
...Andre Marie Joseph de Gaulle, 72. His ability to bring a skillful influence to bear upon events should be enough to send a believer in impersonal historical determinism back to his books. Tall and ungainly, so dim-eyed that he constantly stumbles, so seldom a listener that he seems deaf, De Gaulle should be a figure of fun (and sometimes is), but the greatness in the man usually survives the mockery. His mind is like the Louvre, filled with battle pictures in which the French are always winning; his heart throbs with simple emotions labeled Patrie, Dieu, Gloire...
...envied actress on the island of Manhattan, since she has been given another of the playwright's memorable roles for women, Flora Goforth, whom she portrays with blinding blistering brilliance. Playgoers inured to the calculated trivia of Broadway may be infuriated, touched to the quick, or turned stone-deaf at being asked, in all seriousness, to contemplate the state of their souls at the moment of impending death...
...nights of important debuts, nervous musicians often whisper backstage prayers that the critics, somehow, will fall deaf by curtain time. Last week the critics fell mute instead. New York's newspaper strike (see PRESS) left them effectively silenced, but to the artists who made their debuts, the quiet from critics' row seemed even gloomier than the usual whisper of mighty pencils...
...patient, who had been injured in a collision between his light car and a heavy truck, was deaf, blind and speechless; he had no reflexes at all, and he did not show any pain reactions. The full medical diagnosis, reported in the magazine Medical World News, reads like a lengthening catalogue of doom...