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...town on the Potomac is booming. Humorist Russell Baker may garnish the truth when he writes of suburban lawns "green with money." And admittedly not everybody rushed to get at the $13,000 Chinese vases when the new Neiman-Marcus store opened last November. But by the most telling measure???family income?Washington has fattened into the most affluent metropolis in the country...
...Finance Committee meetings, Long voted for three of the four principal taxes the President wants imposed. But he opposes the key conservation measure???a high tariff on industrial users of gas and oil. When the issue came up in the Senate last week, Long was in vintage form, giving that he might receive. A few days before the vote, Long's chief aide ?raising the specter of financial ruin for Louisiana industry?forecast the proposal's future with a Southern lilt: "The industrial user's tax is d-a-i-d, dead." Yet when the measure came...
...Such opportunity the American Museum, on its 62nd birthday, offers in unparalleled measure???travel, exploration, research, adventure, laboratory or book work, but always work of the hardest kind. Only those on the inside can form the faintest idea of what 'Life's fighting line' in the American Museum means. First, it means keeping yourself in sound physical and mental condition which is impossible if you yield to dissipation; second, it means dogged persistence in the face of what appear to be insuperable difficulties; third, it means that you must deny yourself many of the thousand opportunities which surround...
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