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Like certain poisons, taxes can be taken only in small doses. When the peacetime national tax passes 10%, people begin to take evasive action (in Parkinson's view, the Book of Exodus is the story of an epic tax dodge). At about 25%, inflation debases the currency. Over 35%, taxes are alms for oblivion; the nation is carting itself to history's junkpile...
FICTION 1 . Hawaii, Michener ( 1 )* Advise and Consent, Drury (2) 3. The Devil's Advocate, West (4) 4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (3) 5. Poor No More, Ruark (6) 6. Exodus, Uris (9) 7. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (5) 8. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (8) 9. The War Lover, Hersey (7) 10. Fuel for the Flame, Waugh (10) NONFICTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. May This House Be Safe from Tigers...
...than Carl Francis Hansen, 54, who heads the public schools of Washington, D.C. Like most big cities, Washington suffers all of urban public education's growing ills: crowded classrooms, underpaid teachers, juvenile delinquency. But Superintendent Hansen has extra trouble. In Dixie-oriented Washington, "massive" integration sparked a continuing exodus of white pupils to private schools and the suburbs; 76.7% of the city's 118,244 students are now Negro, up 20% since...
...Exodus, Uris...
...scholarship; the boy who beat him crammed so hard that all his hair fell out. No crammer, Ronald was a bit of a prankster. He particularly disliked Classmate Hugh Dalton, later Chancellor of the Exchequer. On an exam paper asking "What are the oldest parts of the book of Exodus?" Ronald altered Dalton's paper to read "oddest," and the future politico listed all of the grosser passages...