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...quickly as possible, the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther is plumping for a temporary suspension of withholding taxes. Ford Motor Vice President Theodore O. Yntema goes even farther, suggests a moratorium on all income taxes, whether withheld or paid quarterly. Neither plan has found much support, largely because both are considered unconventional, difficult to administer. Labor unions and some Democrats have suggested a rise in the personal income-tax exemption from $600 to $700 or $800. Legislators of both parties frown on such a plan because it would free millions of people from paying any taxes, remove the sense...
Bigger Bug. Germany's Bavarian Motor Works has put on the market a five-passenger mate to its two-passenger Isetta 300. In addition to the door opening from the car's front, the new Isetta 600 has a rear curbside door and back seat, is 21 in. longer (115 in. overall) than the 300 model. Its air-cooled engine has two cylinders to the 300's one, doubling horsepower to 26, though gasoline consumption of up to 58 m.p.g. is about the same. U.S. price...
...land where the centuries do not follow each other but run side by side. In the oil city of Palembang the streets throb with Cadillacs and motor scooters, while scarcely 50 miles away aboriginal Kubus still live in trees. There are modern textile factories on Java but. close by, a tiger may feast on a wild pig or water buffalo. Elephants trumpet in the rain forest; single-horned rhinos move like tanks through the deltaic swamps; the 10-ft. Komodo lizard looks out from thick underbrush like a dragon from the pages of Arthurian romances...
...commercials are fostering a strange new language. Last week Variety lumped together some specimens. There is the deodorant fortified with TD-4, the Confectioners 10-X sugar, the toothpaste containing WD-9, the motor oil boasting an "active ingredient" called Z-7. Other fortifiers, pharmaceutical gimmicks and syllabic concoctions from Madison Avenue test tubes: Gardol, Estron, Lurex, Lumium, Vionate, Bio-Dyne, Rynosec and Purscent, Liquifix, Radionics. Opaque-Ion, Neo-Synephrine, Hydrolin, SLS, Theradan, Sarthionate and Thorexin...
...pump operates by electricity, uses a motor compressor and coils much like a refrigerator to keep the house at comfortable temperatures. In summer it draws the hot air out of the house through ducts, runs it over a refrigerated coil, circulates the cooled air back through the house. In winter, the pump draws in the cold outside air, picks up heat from it by passing it over an even colder coil; the heat is then transferred by fluid to a compressor, which raises the fluid to a high temperature, passes it to a second coil used to heat inside...