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...obviously determined to write a stringent reform law. Meeting throughout the week, the committee approved the narrowing of loopholes that now allow some wealthy individuals to escape taxation entirely. The changes would bring an additional $2 billion into the federal Treasury and lighten the burden-if only by a feather -on the middle-income taxpayers...
...that the Secretary had close relations with the oil industry while Governor of Alaska. Nor were the citizens of the oil-soaked town reassured. "I have the feeling," said Fred Eissler of the Sierra Club, "that if Hickel walked into Santa Barbara right now, the people would tar and feather him And God knows, we have plenty of both...
...hand produces a steady, lilting melodic line that can flow from originals to classic themes-as in Chopin Prelude/ How Insensitive, which leads from an E minor prelude into a bossa nova favorite with a similar mood and melody. Pretty good for a 15-year-old. As Critic Leonard Feather puts it, by the time Craig Hundley is old enough to shave, he might well be the best-known pianist in jazz...
...They twitter and sing," wrote Novelist Graham Greene of the women of South Viet Nam. In their diaphanous silk ao dais, they can readily appear as delicate and inconsequential as so many songbirds. In fact, Vietnamese women are birds of a very different feather. Heiresses of an ancient tradition of matriarchy, they have become, under the pressures of two decades of war, Asia's most emancipated women. They fight, politic, run businesses and their families and, through their husbands, probably control much of South Viet Nam's endemic corruption...
FUNNY GIRL. Barbra Streisand becomes a movie star in this musical biography of Fanny Brice, whose brassy personality fits the leading lady like a feather...