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Traditionally, when asked to raise taxes, Congressmen heft their axes. This year, under heavy Administration pressure to approve a 10% surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes, the mood of Congress is that nothing will be done until the President wields a hatchet himself. In a humiliating rebuff to its Democratic leadership and Lyndon Johnson, the House of Representatives last week bluntly told the Administration that it should either make immediate and specific plans to cut federal spending or else jettison all hope of its urgently needed tax boost...
Well aware of that fact, Mayer spent nearly six years preparing this book, which got to the publisher three years late. But for all his effort, he has mainly heft to show. His book carefully discusses almost every important tree in the legal forest, plus the forest itself...
...charade in which the students' real aim is to escape embarrassment and pain. By contrast, before he gets to school, Holt argues, a child has "a love affair with life." In fact, his attitude toward everything in the world about him is to "taste it, touch it, heft it, bend it, break it-and he is not afraid of making mistakes...
...saddle; in The War Wagon, he mounted his horse with his own steam, while Co-Star Kirk Douglas, ten years younger, had to leap aboard his mount with the help of an unseen trampoline. The only perceptible indications of Wayne's years are a bit more heft around the middle and the hairpiece he wears on the set to mask a thinning pate...
...with life itself. "It is one of the mysteries of nature," he said in 1906, after his favorite daughter Susy died of meningitis at 24, "that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunderstroke like that and live." He was, says Kaplan, obsessed with "the rustle and chink and heft of money." He kept a private hate list and added names to it all his years. "A liar, a thief, a drunkard, a traitor, a filthy-minded and salacious slut," he recorded, at 74, of a secretary fallen from his grace. The distinguished fared no better: he called Whitelaw Reid...