Word: dillons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Years ago, planning ahead toward international fame, he guessed correctly that to Western ears there was no chic-of-Araby in the sound of Shalhoub. He thought, he says, of Omar Khayyam and Omar Bradley, both familiar names several thousand miles west. He may also have thought of Matt Dillon and Gary Cooper. At any rate, he entered his profession as Omar Sharif...
...Chicago or Philadelphia." The Electoral College compels the presidential parties to "cater to the urban masses and their liberal dogmas." For leadership, they draw from the ranks of big-city lawyers, Eastern financial executives, academicians (Republican examples: Elihu Root, Henry Stimson, John Foster Dulles, Douglas Dillon). These parties are generally internationalist, favor activist government, are concerned with broad "way-of-life" issues...
...about tax cuts as such, but on the issue of general tax reform. Mills calls the present U.S. income tax structure a "house of horrors." He wants to see it drastically revised, with lower, more equitable rates and fewer exceptions. The Administration, too, favors tax reform. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, the only Republican in Kennedy's Cabinet, is a sturdy champion of reform along the basic lines that Mills advocates. President Kennedy in a TV speech last year promised "long-needed tax reform that logic and equity demand." But tax reform is a brambly issue for a politician to grab...
...first skirmish between Kennedy and Mills on the reform issue took place last summer when, with the economy showing signs of slump, Kennedy considered calling for a "quickie" tax cut. Mills and Secretary Dillon, allies for tax reform, held firm against a hasty tax bill, and Kennedy discarded the idea. But he still committed himself in public to tax reduction "to take effect as of the start of next year." To get early tax reduction through Congress, Kennedy planned on a two-package approach?cuts in one package, reform in the other. Again Mills balked, and again Kennedy revised...
Poujade's line has remained constant, but Chanzeaux is changing considerably. The town has become prosperous and confident since 1958, according to Laurence Wylie. C. Douglass Dillon Professor of French Civilization, who visited Chanzeaux at election-time to talk and make tape-recordings for his course in French sociology...