Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brand-new tax credit amounting to 20% of their taxable income up to $1.200. If the retired taxpayer's wife is 65 or over, she also gets the 20% credit on $1,200 of her own income (or, in community-property states, on the next $1,200 of joint income). Those younger than 65 who are retired under local, state and federal pension plans also get this credit, but only on their pension incomes. In computing the credit, the taxpayer must subtract from the $1,200 base his social-security payments and certain other tax-free income, plus...
...Continuum, a chillingly funny satire of the post-atomic-war age, with the sentence: "This is decapitated head No. 63, Universal Institute of Cerebral Physiology, electrotelepathecast ing in all directions in space-time." Typical of Horizon's gnawing sense that the times are out of joint is Paul Goodman's Iddings Clark, a surrealistic tale of a mousy English teacher whose personality splinters until finally he enters his classroom "stark naked except for his spectacles and a Whittier in his right hand...
...Congress in joint session stood up and cheered when Syngman Rhee, 79, made his way through the crowded House last week. For Rhee, a longtime back-street resident of Washington, it was a triumphal return. But the flinty, wrinkled President of Korea took no time to savor his personal triumphs; he had a somber message for the Congress and for the free world...
...Drafted by the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (headed by New York's Congressman W. Sterling Cole and his vice-chairman, Iowa's Senator Bourke Hickenlooper), the bill has two main objectives: 1) to create a private atomic-power industry, and 2) to prepare allied nations for atomic warfare and peacetime uses of atomic energy...
Executing the Agreement. A joint Commission composed of equal numbers from each side shall insure a "simultaneous and general cease-fire," a "regrouping of armed forces," observance of the demarcation lines and other provisions that depend on joint action. Supervision. An International Commission-Canada, India and Poland-shall preside as arbitrator of troop movements, supervisor of ports and frontiers and all aspects of the truce. India will preside...