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Although this formula must still filter through House & Senate, it was clear that the public would be able to swallow the final mixture with an easy gulp. In a pre-election year, the Ways & Means Committee was unwilling to find ways & means to raise the $10.5 billion in new taxes recommended by the Treasury, was eager to settle for around $2 billion. And the Administration, by fumbling the job of showing why tax increases are necessary, had given Congress an unusually good excuse for preferring politics to economics...
...floating English blonde, a loose, friendly creature with a voice like a drain. Jeannie consoles herself with a graceful, sponging Count, who mistakes her for the Bank of England, escorts her through her favorite viands (caviar, chicken mousse, Russian salad, peach Melba and champagne at one gulp), postprandially proposes marriage. In the long run, penniless Jeannie and her hard-collared compatriot get together. "Och, it was only the way he kissed my hand," she wistfully explains about the Count...
...which has raided all kinds of A.F. of L. unions. But the Executive Council received a letter from John Lewis last week cooing his willingness to dissolve District 50 into the appropriate A.F of L. unions. The Executive Councilmen, thinking of 600,000 dues-paying members, prepared to gulp down their old hatred. Labor Expert Louis Stark predicted flatly: the U.M.W. will be readmitted soon...
Politics in the Bluegrass State is usually as hot as a searing gulp of straight Kentucky corn, as close-fought as a banner-year Derby. This year's gubernatorial elections are no exception. At the post in the Democratic primary this week...
...moving van (around 5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.), Lou Diamond has one of the most notable paunches in the Marines. Beer did it. At Quantico he regularly stationed a detail to buy him a case when the PX opened at 4 o'clock, knocked it off, one gulp to the bottle...