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...report to President Kennedy, the Civil Rights Commission said: "The open and flagrant violation of Constitutional guarantees in Mississippi has precipitated serious conflict. Each week brings fresh evidence of the danger of a complete breakdown of law and order...
...least the latter has an excuse for being both stubborn and conciliating, commendable and pathetic--he has undergone torture in a World War II prison camp. To Mills, also, goes the show stopper, should the film stop for a splendid job. Barrow, overpowered with anger at Sinclair's flagrant violation of orders grips the stem of his martini glass, his face burning into a mask of hatred. He cannot continue his polite conversation; he cannot speak; he cannot move. Finally a reaction comes, and he puts down the glass with a shaking hand as he goes to put a stop...
...Kennedy will be in securing the reforms which he says will compensate for $3.5 billion of the $13.5 billion total out. Even with the death of Oklahoma's Robert Kerr, the Senate oil king. Hutters remained skeptical about the adoption of significant reforms in of depletion allowance, the most flagrant of the existing leopholes. "About 20 other people would have to die too," he remarked...
...last he regained the Main Reading Room and his favorite seat. But, to Gridley's utter amazement, his books were gone. In their place was a crisp envelope from the Head Librarian. He opened it quickly and read: "Because of your flagrant disregard for circulation time limits and overdue book fines, the Library Committee has been compelled to suspend your reader's privileges in the coming term." For the second time that day Gridley smiled sardonically. He was thinking about the new tunnel he had found, the one that led to squash court 9 in Lowell House. He was still...
...high as $10 billion, spread across corporate and individual tax rates, but concentrated on individual taxes. The Administration would like to tie the tax cut to overall tax reform in a "fiscal fitness program for the '60s." Such reform would presumably correct some of the flagrant flaws in the present tax laws-in such areas as depletion allowances, retirement income exemptions and capital gains. But if political considerations threaten tax reform, the Administration apparently will settle for just tax reductions. In any event, there now is little hope of achieving a complete, detailed tax reform...