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Swatting a Gnat. So far, the main drawback is the legal requirement of a judge-signed warrant for each scofflaw. In a big city, no prowl car can possibly lug enough warrants. But police need no warrant to arrest anyone whom they reasonably believe to have committed a felony...
...vote of 401 to 6.* As whooshed through by the House, the bill would repeal "luxury" taxes in three stages over four years. The first reduction, amounting to $1.7 billion and to become effective July 1, would repeal the 10% retail tax on jewelry, furs, cosmetics and other toiletries, lug gage, handbags and other leather goods, as well as the 10% manufacturer's tax on business machines, sporting goods, phonograph records, musical instru ments, television sets, radios and phono graphs, refrigerators, freezers, electric, gas and oil appliances, pens and me chanical pencils, lighters, matches and playing cards. In addition...
...Verdeal Integration Building). There, in four identical 180-ft. bays, technicians will be able to assemble a quartet of the Air Force's versatile new Titan IIIC rockets. When one is finished and checked, a pair of railroad locomotives will pick it up between them and lug it to the next building down the line, the SMAB (Solid Motor Assembly Building). At this point, solid fuel motors of varying degrees of thrust will be strapped onto the sides of the liquid-fueled Titan...
Goldwater's support was evenly divided between those who thought he'd be "a nice daddy," and those who simply couldn't stand Johnson. "Johnson's a big fat lug," said one of the latter, "and his personality is just...
Prof. Voltaire. At the University of Michigan, fraternity houses are stocked with not only old exams but also "teacher psych-outs"-dossiers compiled by A-students on professors' likes and dislikes. This allows con men to lug around the profs favorite magazine, or to ape his lingo. If this fails, says a recent Michigan graduate, there is the "welfare approach" of pretending poverty by wearing "hand-pressed khaki pants" and asking the professor on the very first-day "Ah, how much did you say that textbook was?" As a Wisconsin con man puts it: "These days...