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...drama studies at the University of Southern California. But once he cuts loose on the songs that Daddy taught him, history may well repeat itself. During an impromptu public appearance at Disneyland last summer, one youngish matron came up to the bandstand and purred: "That was almost like the Paramount Theater...
Obviously built for a wide-awake wardrobe was perpetual Cinema Starlet Jill St. John, 22, back to the grind in a Paramount peepshow called Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? Whoever it was, it didn't seem to be her husband, hot rodding Five-and-Dime Heir Lance Reventlow, 27. All Jill wants from Lance these days is separate maintenance...
...long introduction Sigmund tries to unify most of this conglomeration as the "ideology of modernizing nationalism." The paramount goal of this ideology, he notes, is national independence followed by rapid economic development. However, Sigmund lists three other goals which are less clearly part of this ideology: (1) "the creation of a nation-state governed by a regime based on a populist identification of leader, party, and people," (2) regional federation, and (3) nonalignment in international affairs. Indeed, Sigmund's anthology itself indicates how wide are the differences in the meanings that various nationalists give to these phrases...
...citizens with large incomes must be willing to recognize that the revenue code's avenues and alleys of tax avoidance are inequitable and contrary to the spirit of U.S. democracy. In abolishing them, the nation would affirm that it is indeed a society of law, in which equity is paramount over privilege and the tax system distributes the tax burden justly among all citizens...
Former Secretary Benson, in a one and one-half hour talk, defined "creeping socialism" as the paramount issue...