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...rate be slashed from the present 91% to 65%. And it is a sign that an idea is on the march when a Democratic President of the U.S., a political heir of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, declares that "our tax system exerts too heavy a drag on growth . . . siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power . . . reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment and risk taking...
...talking about the accumulated evidence of the last five years that our tax system exerts too heavy a drag on growth-that it siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power-that it reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment and risk-taking...
Bringing on the Bulldozers. A year ago, downtown Pomona seemed to be a terminal case. The main drag, Second Street, was a sorry sight; a third of its buildings were vacant, shops that once were elegant had become clustered holes-in-the-wall-paint peeling, screens rusted to holes. Businessmen and merchants who had not yet moved away were wondering if there was any future at all in the downtown area, and landlords were making things worse by forgoing repairs...
...minute, with smoldering nostrils, he confesses an unpatriotic passion for "Geengeair Rrrogeairs"; the next he sees a band of Fascist bullyboys drag a good man off to die. In the end he gets home to find that he has no home, that the war is not over until tyranny is dead...
Divided Authority. The present Communist Party organization, complained Khrushchev in a 5½-hour speech, is "a drag" on production. To stop the drag, he proposed still another major reorganization, this one to divide the entire party apparatus and each of the Soviet Union's 15 federated republics into two parallel chains of command. One set of committees will supervise agriculture; the other will supervise industry. This runs counter to Communist dogma that divisions between city and country should be erased, but Khrushchev obviously hopes that it will make for greater efficiency...