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While the swimming team is enjoying its moments of glory during the long-awaited Yale meet this weekend, the varsity basketball team will be finishing a season of lost hope against Penn at Philadelphia's Palestra tonight and against Princeton at Dillon Gym tomorrow. In its final game the Crimson will meet Yale at the IAB Wednesday...
Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, one of the many Republicans who favor reform, has conferred with Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and captain of the reform brigade in Congress. Dillon and Mills realize that progress will be slow and difficult; that every reform proposal will be met by howls from the affected groups. Dillon was surprised to learn that, even though the Eisenhower Administration was pledged to tax reform, the Treasury had begun virtually none of the massive staff work and computing that must precede any rewriting of the basic...
Start in April. Dillon intends to propose some minor revisions in April, perhaps tightening expense-account allowances and chucking the $50 exemption on dividend income. But the Treasury will not be ready with any sweeping proposals for many months. After they are submitted. Mills will hold extensive committee hearings, aiming to create the climate of public opinion needed to stir Congress to action. With luck and massive help from the President, a new tax bill might have a chance in Congress next year...
...BUDGET. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon audited the Eisenhower budget for the fiscal year ending in June, predicted a billion-dollar deficit instead of Ike's hoped-for $79 million surplus. Most of the shrinkage, said Dillon, comes from dwindling tax receipts in a worsening economic climate...
...full of Method hipsters seeking to prove that the opiate of the people is heroin; and Little Mary Sunshine, a boffo operetta satirizing the Kerny, Frimlous past. Among worthy revivals, there is a superlative production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, a welcome reprise of Epitaph for George Dillon, by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton, and one sleeper, The Octoroon, a reasonably lively, reasonably funny-by-now melodrama of pre-Civil War days...