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And More Credit. As consumer spending continues into 1966, only two small dim spots concern merchants. One is the effect of this month's $5.5 billion rise in social security taxes for medicare (offset in part by another $1.6 billion excise-tax reduction). The other is a rise in...
Lyndon Johnson came into the presidency worrying about the wisdom of large deficits and questioning the need for a tax cut, but he was convinced by the Keynesian economists around him, and hurried the measure through Congress. The quick success of the income-tax cuts prompted Congress to try a...
ANGEL EYES (Columbia). Dave Brubeck's quartet plays Matt Dennis' songs without words, although Alto Saxophonist Paul Desmond seems to speak sweet somethings in Violets for Your Furs, and Brubeck makes some conventional but well-turned pianistic comments on The Night We Called It a Day.
For those who cannot kick the coat habit, fashion designers are now serving up fun furs instead of practical parkas. Some are strictly fluff and nonsense, like Revillon of Saks Fifth Avenue's $5,550 chinchilla jacket with matching boots. Others are almost tough enough to tumble in, like...
Because tailored suits are not tailored for the cold and fun furs are not sealed off against the wind (none of those tacky elastic cuffs and waistbands for today's skier), many ski shops are pushing "layered dressing." Lord & Taylor suggests that customers start with Ban-Lon long Johns...