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...pint, to 48?). Meanwhile, nearly $1.2 billion in subsidies will be spent in an effort to reduce retail food prices (especially bread and milk) by a targeted average of 6%. A new gift levy will put teeth in Britain's inheritance tax. Previously, gifts bestowed a minimum seven years before death were not subject to any taxation; now they will be. In addition, resident foreigners who do not directly receive their income in Britain will be taxed on 50% of that income anyway. (In the past, this loophole meant that an American working for a U.S. company in London...
...regional officer for HEW, John Bynoe, who approved Harvard's plan last November, said yesterday. "We're glad when any school gives us a plan that meets the minimum standards of acceptability. We've been working with some schools for two years and still have not gotten that...
...October war had ended with both armies hunkered down along the Suez Canal in a hazardous politico-military tangle. Kissinger began the negotiations on disengagement by going to each side and asking, in effect, "What would you like to get out of this situation? What are the minimum requirements with which you would be satisfied?" From then on, it was a matter of trying to reconcile the two positions, trying to make one side see and understand the other's conditions, suggesting subtle adjustments here and there?all the while keeping a basic concept in sight...
...with an important question like "Who was Legs Mortimer?" only Wodehouse could reply, "That was precisely what Angus McTavish wanted to know when he saw him blowing kisses at Evangeline Brackett from the clubhouse canteen," thereby ensuring a rapt and docile audience. Gloom is kept down to the essential minimum and balanced by modest quantities of sex and violence, as in The Salvation of George Mackintosh, in which the beautiful Celia attempts to murder him (George) with, of all things, her niblick. (He had. after all, addressed her while she was addressing her ball...
...Stocks. The largest of these liquid asset funds, the Reserve Fund Inc., began accepting purchases from the public in October 1972. In the short time since then, it has attracted $138 million from 10,000 accounts (minimum: $1,000 each)-even though it has been promoted by word of mouth among investment counselors, brokers, corporations and bank trust departments. Bruce Bent, vice president and treasurer, says that many people, "punchy from the stock market, are taking their money out and putting it in the fund." Indeed, about a third of the investments have come from brokers who have...