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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said his office would close for the holiday. Worse yet, the chairman of the Assembly's Revenue and Taxation Committee, Republican John Veneman, introduced tax bills markedly different from Republican Reagan's. Veneman proposed, in addition to an increase in the sales tax, which inevitably discriminates against lower-income groups, a general increase in corporate and personal income taxes...
...India's balloting, the fourth since independence, will be the largest election ever held. More than 130 million people, nearly twice as many as ordinarily vote in the U.S., are expected to go to the polls. More than 18,000 candidates are competing for 521 seats in the lower house of Parliament and for seats in the 17 state legislatures. Despite India's widespread poverty, the candidates will spend $100 million on electioneering. Because three-quarters of India's electorate is illiterate, voters will show their preference by stamping an X above a symbol representing their favorite...
...last thing they want is a lot of motors going." But complaints will not make them go away. There are just too many people who like to go skiing while sitting down. Sales are doubling each year, and some enthusiasts are even predicting that some day when prices get lower, snowmobiles will outnumber small outboard motorboats. "That may be optimistic," says one manufacturer, "but look at it this way: there are a lot more square miles of snow than there are of beatable water...
...sure, echoes of Paris were everywhere. Culottes, shorts and bloomers were big; so, as in Paris, were belts, textured stockings and lots of bright African prints. Hemlines were lower by a smidgen-but still high enough to expose an ample expanse of thigh...
...house, have two cars, a color television set, and a cleaning woman? Didn't Christ preach against materialism?" The solemn Perfect Christian Response: "Suppose everyone did sell his belongings. Do you honestly think that people of means would be attracted to such a shoddy, lower-class type of Christianity...