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...Drags & Dividends. If, as Heller expects, the economy should keep growing annually at its present 41% rate, federal tax revenues will swell by $9 billion every year, and that will present a new problem of prosperity. Once the demands of Viet Nam are over, this surplus will be a "fiscal drag" that could lead the economy into recession, unless policymakers return the surplus to the people in the form of "fiscal dividends." Heller is less keen on tax cuts now; he has, in fact, been calling since early this year for strictly temporary and quickly reversible tax increases to frustrate...
...book is his meticulously observed birth of a kangaroo in southeastern Australia: it emerges as a pinkish, gleaming blob no longer than the first joint of a man's little finger, and is deposited on the mother's tail. Practically an embryo, the baby must drag itself blindly up through the fur on its mother's stomach and crawl into the marsupial pouch. Throughout, the mother kangaroo remains indifferent to the baby's struggles. This, says Durrell, is "the equivalent of a blind man, with both legs broken, crawling through a thick forest...
...shock that students will react with "unmannerly" and "impolite" demonstrations? Is it the bad manners of students demonstrators that has killed 6000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese? Or is it an Executive branch that, with as little open discussion as it can get away with, continues to drag a divided American people and a reluctant and brutalized Asian people into a larger war? ROBERT GINSBURG...
...worry. Some night when you're going for your bus. Scuffle, then clunk. There won't be much blood to speak of, just an agony and an aching, and not being able to drag yourself along the wet pavement...
...libretto snippeted out of the plays of Plautus, and lickerish leerics that read like Pompeian graffiti. Above all, it had a huge round Zero named Mostel, who wore a fingertip tunic the size of a pup tent and went tippety-skipping about the stage like a bull walrus in drag...