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...grants at $1,000 per person per year, but only the very poor would get that much. The grants would be taxed, and taxpayers would lose their present $750 personal exemptions, with the result that most people would have at least part of their $1,000 grant eaten up by higher taxes. After this complex tax jiggling, McGovern's initial estimates were that a family of four with an income of $8,000 would collect $2,000 from the Government. A family with a $12,000 income would collect nothing. Families earning more than $12,000 would suffer progressively...
What I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought patterns previously held, and to toes aside some of my previous conclusions. I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed, while praying to the same God, with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. We were truly the same brothers, because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior...
...horns blaring. The line stretched to the horizon, and so did its litter: helmets, full ammunition pouches, combat boots, web belts and packs. At the refugee-jammed city of Hué, 24 miles south of Quang Tri, the headlong retreat turned into a rampage. Soldiers who had not eaten in two days looted stores in broad daylight. By night, gangs of deserters started fires and fought drunken skirmishes in the streets...
...covers all non-undergraduates affiliated with the House, has survived since February entirely on voluntary contributions by the staff and associates. In a notice posted for the tutors, William Liller '49, Master of Adams House, expressed the hope that future contributions would offset the cost to tutors of meals eaten in the dining hall between now and the end of the year...
...rice served on plates of dried banyan leaves. There I met a former bandit whom Vinoba Bhave had persuaded to surrender. "Did you ever kill anyone?" I asked. "Naturally. I killed policemen," he answered. "How many?" "If I asked you how many pieces of bread you've eaten in the past two months, could you tell...