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...sustain the upward economic momentum started by a refund of 1974 taxes. As a down payment on comprehensive tax reform, withholding tax rates should be reduced through a formula equivalent to the $70 income tax credit for each member of a family, up to a maximum of $375 per household, as suggested by the President's Labor-Management Advisory Council...
During the Yom Kippur War, Israeli women tended to bypass emergency public service and plunge into household tasks to relieve anxieties about loved ones at the front. For a while, the fledgling women's liberation movement in Israel seemed almost snuffed out. Now it is growing again, but the current crisis has helped reinforce traditional sexual roles. A recent survey of women showed that 90% of them felt that females should not take combat positions in the army. Despite the near constant threat to national survival, women have not fought since...
Looking for a bargain? Try Vincent Swaggi's store, where merchandise is stacked to the ceiling: household goods, toys, shoes, sweaters, suits, radios, electric toothbrushes, records, film, perfume, wigs, even ballet slippers. Ignore the department-store price marked on most items. Swaggi will give you "a real steal." But watch yourself. What you are reaching for is likely to be really stolen goods, hot as a smoldering coal. Vincent Swaggi is a fence...
...electric power switched off without a hearing in October 1971. The Metropolitan Edison Co. had discontinued Mrs. Jackson's service once before when she failed to pay her bill but later restored it under a new account in the name of another occupant of the Jackson household. When new bills totaling $30 went unpaid, the utility again turned off the electricity. Mrs. Jackson went to court, seeking damages and an injunction calling for renewed service. To cut off her power without first giving her a hearing, Mrs. Jackson's lawyers argued, would deprive her of "life, liberty...
...full of wonders and murders, long-suffering younger sons who make it and bad giants who don't. It is a great buy in drops of blood, talking foxes, poisoned apples, unparalleled cruelty, earthy wisdom, dumbfounding stupidity and sheer excitement. Every literate household (with or without children) should...