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HEALTH & CHARITY. Taxpayers may deduct medical expenses in excess of 3% of gross income. The old figure was 5%. A new limitation imposed by the bill is that expenditures for medicines and drugs may be counted as medical expense only to the extent that they exceed 1% of gross income. The tax bill also raises the maximum medical deduction to $2,500 per person and the maximum for any single tax return to $10,000 for married taxpayers or heads of households and $5,000 for single taxpayers or spouses filing separately. The old maximums were $1,250 a person...
...President, a weathered veteran of military and diplomatic wars and skirmishes, recognized the extent of the defeat and the degree of the danger. "The United States has not been a belligerent in this war," he said. "The primary responsibility for the settlement in IndoChina rested with those nations which participated in the fighting. Our role at Geneva has been at all times to try to be helpful . . . The agreement contains features which we do not like." Then, with an eye to the next Red move, he added, "but a great deal depends on how they work out in practice...
Masterful Application. Across the Communist empire, the Red radio network proclaimed the extent of Chou's triumph. "The achievement is of immense, historic significance," crowed Peking. "It is another victory for peaceful negotiation, another ignominious setback for the U.S. policy of strength." The Red radios had their own significant interpretation of Geneva's meaning...
...some extent, the end of meat rationing only confirmed and symbolized a freedom that had already arrived by stages. Meat has become increasingly plentiful in recent months, and off-ration purchases of good cuts could frequently be made-for a price. Many Socialists predicted that de-rationing would send prices even higher, but at least Britain's housewives were legally free of one tyrant-the local butcher. Last week, after standing in queues outside butchers' doors for more than a decade, the Association of London Housewives got to their feet once more to stage a rally in Trafalgar...
...invocation of the Almighty . . . is a serious business. God is not easily flattered, and we suspect that His interest in this reference to Him is conditioned strictly [by] the extent to which our national decisions and policies and actions are 'under...