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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taxes Are a Clue. The cause of the crisis is the steadily rising cost of state responsibilities. Previously approved increases in state aid for education, welfare doles and Medicaid costs alone are expected to add $800 million to the New York budget...
...stop broadcasting the result of the Alves vote. Censors and policemen invaded newspapers and press-agency offices. The respected daily O Estado de Sao Paulo was ordered to kill its morning edition because a critical editorial warned Costa e Silva: "You can't run a country of 80 million people like an army division." So rapid and efficient was the clamp down on the press and radio that few citizens became aware of the crisis. Under the bright sun, workers left for their weekends and fishermen placidly cast their lines from the banks of Guanabara...
There is money to be made attacking Kennedys, and Lasky knows it. "Go ahead. Get me," he recently goaded a reporter. "Hostile reviews sell books." Although JFK got mostly bad reviews in 1963, it sold, says Lasky, "about a quarter of a million hardbound copies. At $1.20 a copy, you figure...
Nothing on the New York Stock Exchange has sold quite so briskly as its slogan, "Own Your Share of American Business." The number of in vestors who do has risen from 6,000,000 to 24 million since 1953. One in eight Americans-more than half of them in the under $10,000 income bracket-participate in "people's capitalism...
...weeks ago, under pressure from the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange reduced the fees on trades of more than 1,000 shares, dropping them from an average .89% to .84% on the value of each transaction. This will cost the brokers about $150 million in commissions next year, or roughly 7% of what they might have expected to earn on the big trades. Oddly, to make up the difference, brokers are clamoring for an increase in commissions on trans actions of fewer than 100 shares. Such commissions range upward from a minimum...