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Torturous as it sounds, the method is essentially painless. It is admittedly cumbrous and timeconsuming, says...
...THAT WALKED BY HERSELF read by Boris Karloff (Caedmon). One painless way to break the comic-book habit and get the kids back to Kipling is to let this gentle old Frankenstein do it for you. All about the cave dwellers, and how the lady of the house domesticates a dog, a horse, a cow-and finally a cat, which proves a match for her wits...
...rights, a two thousand year old comedy that revolves around a debate between two dead Greeks ought to be dignified, sedate, oratorical, and utterly soporific. But the Dunster House production of Aristophanes' The Frogs is a surprisingly rollicking farce that barrels along through two painless hours, occasionally wobbling but never slowing down...
Last week, after five years of planning and preparation, Australia took the plunge into decimals. The government tried to make the transition as painless as possible, preceded it with a long education campaign. To replace the Australian pound, it picked as the new major unit the dollar, which will be valued at half a pound and will be circulated in denominations of $1, $2, $10 and $20. In turn, there will be 100 pennies to the dollar, coined in 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 pieces. As conversion day-or C-day-drew near, the government launched a radio...
...whether to 1) stall, 2) ask Congress to erase all or part of the income tax reductions for which he battled last year, 3) seek new revenues from excess profit taxes and imposts on luxuries (as Harry Truman did to finance the Korean War) or 4) try a relatively painless palliative such as increasing the amount of income tax withheld from paychecks or accelerating corporate tax payments. Whatever the solution, catching up with the rabbit may not be the easiest of encounters for Lyndon Johnson...