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...Gold, 45, former press secretary to Spiro Agnew. Gold, who appears in 97 papers, dislikes the conservative label, describes himself as a "smartass iconoclast" at a time when "most icons are liberal." Gold's work thus far has been heavier on vitriol than substance. He spent two columns attacking the new reverence for Harry Truman ("I'm tired of all this crap about cuddly old Harry"), and he uses Nelson Rockefeller as a prime whipping boy. He has not addressed the impeachment question, other than to offer one veiled suggestion that Congress "go with the Madison Plan [impeachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Columns Right | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...with the burden falling heaviest on the biggest earners. Thus, a $25,000-a-year earner who had been paying roughly $8,000 a year in taxes will now pay about $500 more. Those earning $7,200 and under will pay marginally less. There will be heavier levies on luxuries such as liquor (48? more for a 26-oz. bottle of gin, to $6.24), cigarettes (12? more a pack, to 78?) and beer (2½? a pint, to 48?). Meanwhile, nearly $1.2 billion in subsidies will be spent in an effort to reduce retail food prices (especially bread and milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Not Soaked, but Damp | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...however, for two aggressive men not to covet the major credit for a success as gaudy as Paramount's. A recent 16-page advertising flyer-approved by Yablans -for new studio productions displays his photograph but fails to mention Evans at all. The brotherly yoke may be getting heavier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready or Not, Here comes Gatsby | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...regulations may have a great effect on the total amount of teaching done. The positions vacated by first-year students, barred under the new guidelines from teaching, should presumably be filled by more advanced students taking heavier loads...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: New Rules With Little Effect | 3/16/1974 | See Source »

Coach John Lee, realizing that Harvard was weak in the heavier weights, employed a strategy throughout the season of bringing his better wrestlers down in weight class and conceding the heavier weights. The plan wasn't much help yesterday, however, as the lower weight classes took a beating along with the heavier ones...

Author: By Theodore O. Rogers jr., | Title: Crimson Matmen End Season, Drop Meet to Penn, Princeton | 2/23/1974 | See Source »

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