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...where three embattled women tongue-lashed Murrow and a member of the school board in what was obviously a long-sought opportunity to air their very real grievances. The film wound up with a televised debate between Alabama's Senator Lister Hill and New York Representative Ralph Gwinn that contained nearly as much nonsense as the preceding 70 minutes had clarity and intelligence...
...Congressman was New York's Representative Ralph W. Gwinn; the dinner, sponsored by the Rental Housing Federation of Boston Real Estate Board, was excellent. By 8:30, cigar smoke filled the air and an injudicious mixture of highballs and beer stimulated a high level of noise from the table behind us. But Gwinn's voice, deep and sincere, quieted them down quickly. His subject was how to limit federal taxing power and stop government socialism and, although sponsored by one of the nations' more vociferous lobbies, he addressed himself to "the ordinary, unorganized, politically uninfluential citizen...
...popular representation or checks and balances. But these limitations, which centered on power of the purse, have disappeared. Congressmen are granting the government "illegitimate functions" like security benefits, school lunches, and public housing ("the NKVD American Plan") and voting increased taxes to pay for them. And, according to Gwinn, the root of this evil is the Sixteenth or income tax Amendment--passed in 1913. The solution, then, is to restore the limitation that prevailed from 1789 to 1913 by a Constitutional amendment to limit the federal tax take for non-military purposes to 5% of the national income. Such...
...Gwinn ended on this plea for minority action. While his historical throwback may amuse some, his plan is no joke. More than twenty states have petitioned Congress for just such a Convention, and only thirty-two such petitions are necessary...
Road to the Top. For all his one-man rule, Fred Rentschler has picked a team which can carry on without him. "Anybody who can run Pratt & Whitney," he says, "can run United." Jack Horner, 47, moved from Pratt & Whitney to United's presidency in 1943. William Gwinn, 43, who came to Pratt & Whitney at 19 as a kid "crazy about aviation," now bosses Pratt & Whitney. (Of Rentschler's original team, he alone is active in the company.) Though United is primarily an engine-builder (more than two-thirds of its dollar sales), its other divisions are fast...