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...Colorado Republican John Love, halfway through his four-year term, thought he saw storm warnings when he asked for a 1% increase in the state's sales tax and a 2?-a-pack additional tax on cigarettes. He was right. Not only was Love saddled with his first divided legislature (Republican senate, Democratic house), which boded ill for his tax-increase plans, but even some fellow Republicans were against the idea...
...Stepinac Crusaders were already halfway through their pregame warm-ups by the time the boys from Manhattan's Power Memorial Academy finally showed up at Madison Square Garden. That was enough practice as far as Coach Nat Volpe was concerned. He ordered his team back to the locker room to await the start of the game. "I didn't want them to see him before they had to," he explained. Who was him? Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor...
...Halfway Price. The cause for jubilation was an agreement on the Mansholt Plan to create a common market for cereals starting with the 1967 harvest, meaning, as Mansholt explained, "From Schleswig-Holstein to Sicily, we'll have one basic system, one set of rules and prices." Despite their startling success in reducing industrial divisions among themselves in the seven years since the Common Market was founded, the Six until now have had small luck in harmonizing their farm policies-largely because of the disparity between France's low-cost farm efficiency and Germany's cosseted high-cost...
...flowed" in the blood stream along the transverse sinus, down the main jugular vein and superior vena cava, into the right auricle (upper chamber) of the heart and through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. Thanks to the heart's muscular contractions, the fragment had worked halfway through the heart wall. If it had gone all the way, Kelley, who was ready to go home last week, would probably have died-just as if he had been shot in the heart in the first place. As it is, he will go home for Christmas...
...Alfie suffers from overspecialization, and the comedy could use some of the variety and conflict that spice drama. Still, Alfie himself is irresistibly in the tradition of the picaresque novel, and his running asides are canny and constant delights: "If you make a married woman laugh, you're halfway there with her. Mind you, it don't work with a single bird. Get one of them laughin' and you don't get nothin' else." Bill Naughton was a truck driver before he began writing plays, but it is obvious that he kept a sharp...