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...more horse racing (betting is already taxed) by means of an extra race a day and five additional racing days a season. Texas, its oil producers already hilt-taxed, may tax natural-gas transmission companies as well. New Mexico may triple its severance tax on uranium; Nevada will collect one-fourth the state budget from legalized gambling; Florida taxes citrus growers and Maine its timber...
...defense budget comes to $40.9 billion, an increase of one-fourth of 1% over this year, not enough to cover price up-creep. A 12% boost in research and development funds is balanced by a 15% cut in military construction outlays. Procurement outgo stays about the same, $14 billion, with no money for Air Force interceptors or phased-out missiles such as the Navy's Regulus II, more money for newer missiles. The Air Force's missile-of-the-future, the solid-fuel Minuteman, is scheduled for a 40% increase to $270 million. Within the defense budget...
...print the results of a recent Gallup poll on whether Dulles is right to keep U.S. troops in Kremlin-menaced Berlin [Dec. 29]. The most interesting result is not that 60% of those polled agree with Mr. Dulles but that almost one-fourth are not familiar with the problem that might bring on World War III. What we probably need is fewer public polls and more public education...
...dogged one-fourth who wanted escape from the programed life, however expensive it might prove to be, stepped up their campaigning, got valuable assistance from their official landlords. When a federal law was passed allowing residents of the atomic cities of Richland and Oak Ridge, Tenn. to buy property, G.E. happily put 4,800 homes on the market, sold all but 600, followed up by selling commercial property also. After another petition for incorporation was circulated, Richlanders poured out last July to approve...
...second DC-3 and, Viscount included, the third Cubana airlines plane that Castro captured in as many weeks. He thus 1) deprived Cubana of nearly one-fourth of its planes, worth $1,160,000; 2) helped sever the government's air link to beleaguered Santiago, already virtually cut off by land; and 3) provided himself with the nucleus of an air transport force to service rebel columns marauding in Camagüey and Las Villas provinces...