Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raise the new revenues, Reagan proposed a 5% sales tax (up from 4%), increases in liquor taxes from $1.50 per gallon to $2.25, in cigarette taxes from 3? to 6½?, in personal income tax rates from a maximum of 7% to 10%, and in bank and corporate profits from a maximum of 9.5% to 10.5%. Actually, the new taxes were necessary mainly because the state was committed by former Governor Pat Brown to programs costing far more than current taxes are bringing in. If approved by the legislature, they will become effective July 1, and under the California constitution...
...orange (or pink or avocado) patent-leather golf shoes, Sanders is a confirmed, color-coordinated kook. Twice married and twice divorced, he is wildly superstitious, mildy neurotic, engagingly extraverted and outrageously hedonistic. Women? "I'm afraid of dying," he sighs. "That's why I love so hard." Liquor? "I've spilled more," says Sanders, "than Tony Lema swallowed...
...enacted, requiring individual counties to take action but also giving the state power to step in if nothing is done at the local level. A long-needed reform centralized the state's fragmented, inefficient purchasing system. Plans are in the works to revamp the scandal-ridden Liquor Control Board, stripping it of its responsibility for narcotics control. In the traditionally delicate area of ethics, some tough new regulations were enacted, including one that bars a legislator and any of his family from doing business with the state...
...pushing Zephyr cigarettes for an advertising agency, Eddie also moonlights as Edward Arness, writer of hatchet jobs for slick magazines. Anderson-Topouzoglou-Arness is trapped in a Los Angeles "Spanish Renaissance ranch house" with a patient wife, a confused teen-age daughter, a supply of Picassos, tabs from the liquor store, and his mate's meddling analyst. "Asleep in the dell of respectability," he awakes with a whoop after making it with Gwen Hunt, a former Dixie-belle show gal turned Girl Friday Night for the ad-agency boss...
Last week he told his constituents how much more he expects to charge them for less government: a 1? increase in the general sales tax, raising it to 5? on the dollar; 5? more per pack of cigarettes, boosting it to 8? and 50? more on a gallon of liquor, to $2. Next day, a Reagan aide sent out a memorandum suggesting that state employees volunteer to work without compensation on Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays, thus saving the state-according to the Governor's arithmetic...