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...George and all his kin, it will be a royal Bicentennial. In fond, forgiving tribute to the nation that rejected monarchy 200 years ago, nine of Europe's ten reigning families will have visited the U.S. by year's end. Preparing for one of the biggest convergences of royalty since the days when regal retinues descended on Paris or Vienna for filet Empire, monarchs in palaces from Copenhagen's Amalienborg to Madrid's Zarzuela are brushing up on such transatlantic lore as Queen Elizabeth's relationship to George Washington (second cousin seven times removed) and the name of U.S.S. Monitor...
...went to the monastery with a great fear. I wondered how I could fill this heart of mine in the desert, alone, because I am a man fond of human social contact...
Though the overall level of taxation has remained low during this era, the burden has been shifted even more to the backs of the working people, the average citizens whom Wallace is so fond of mentioning. Wealthy individuals and corporations contribute an even smaller percentage of the total state revenue than they did in 1963. In fact, according to Alabama Attorney General William J. Baxley, Alabama now has the "most regressive tax structure in the country...
...late Joseph C. Wilson, builder of Xerox Corp., was fond of observing that if his company continued to grow at the meteoric rates of the 1960s, its sales would soon exceed the U.S. gross national product. The implication of that self-evident absurdity: Xerox's growth would have to slow; and it has now come true. Last year the company posted record revenues of $4 billion, but its profits suffered their first decline -a gossamer 1.8% before write-offs, to $342 million-since 1951, when Xerox was a small photographic-paper maker, known as the Haloid Co., in Rochester...
Soviet officials are also impressed. Says one: "We do not have entirely fond memories of Ambassador Kennan himself [the Kremlin declared him persona non grata after he denounced Stalinism in 1953], but we regard the formation of his institute as a positive development." Indeed, the Russians feel that in the Institut Imyeni Kennana the U.S. finally has a worthy counterpart to Moscow's U.S.A. Institute-a think tank for Americanologists in the Soviet Union...