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...income tax, is considered unfair by 80% of the panelists. "When I hear about the rich getting away with paying little or no taxes while we middle class are paying and trying so hard to make ends meet, I get mad," says a California housewife. A retired woman, Janet Lindo, 67, of Mineola, N.Y., "feels sorry for the little guy-he has to pay almost everything he has in taxes." Much of the anger is directed at property taxes. "They are too high and they're going higher," protests I. Gifford Ladd, of Wellesley, Mass. Moreover, many feel that...
Barnstorming through Florida, Presidential Candidate Hubert H. Humphrey had a serendipitous confrontation with one of Tampa's more compelling voters. Cielito Lindo is a dusky, almond-eyed Puerto Rican farm-girl-turned-stripper with 38-24-36 to show for herself. The candidate personally pinned an H.H.H. button on Cielito's well-cloven chest. "Come over here," he said, munching a sandwich and patting the seat next to him. "Tell me, what is your real name?" Then, while press cameras clicked, he did not exactly steal a kiss...
GABRIELLA LINDO New York City...
...first stage of Honduras' 120,000-kw. Río Lindo dam goes into operation late this year. When it is completed, Honduras will have more power than it can use in the immediate future. Neighboring El Salvador, the driest country in Central America, needs power for its growing textile, food-processing and shoe industries. The plan is to build a $3,000,000 transmission line from Rio Lindo to El Salvador's capital city of San Salvador -thus giving the Salvadorans electricity and the Hondurans the paying customers they need for further development...
...case, to help make up the difference. But as is not so often the case, the money will probably be well spent. One major deficit item in Villeda Morales' budget is 200 new rural schools costing $5,000 apiece. Another is Honduras' biggest development project, the Rio Lindo-Lake Yojoa hydroelectric plant, which will eventually deliver 165,000 kw., enough to treble the nation's electricity, and bring hopeful new industry to the tiny towns sitting forlornly in the untilled savannas and tropical rain forests...