Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raise the new revenues, Reagan proposed a 5% sales tax (up from 4%), increases in liquor taxes from $1.50 per gallon to $2.25, in cigarette taxes from 3? to 6½?, in personal income tax rates from a maximum of 7% to 10%, and in bank and corporate profits from a maximum of 9.5% to 10.5%. Actually, the new taxes were necessary mainly because the state was committed by former Governor Pat Brown to programs costing far more than current taxes are bringing in. If approved by the legislature, they will become effective July 1, and under the California constitution...
...priest whether "this will allow me to see Gertrude when I die." She lived alone in an apartment in her remaining years, bedridden and arthritic, having daily contact only with her maid Yacinta. At week's end she was buried next to Gertrude in Paris' famed Perè Lachaise Cemetery, where also lie such luminaries as Molière, Proust, Chopin and Delacroix...
...there is not enough to go around, manufacturers are turning to Du Font's Ree-may, a "spunbonded" polyester, and are also using Kendall's Webril, a nonwoven rayon. Kaycel marketing experts calculate current expenditures for disposable goods made from Kaycel and similar materials at $50 million per year, think the figure could reach $300 million within five years...
...started flourishing in the resort center of Crans-Montana in the Swiss Alps. When the first handful of ski bobbers showed up there two years ago, they were greeted by derisive laughter; now the resort has three slopes set aside for their use, rents out 600 bobs at $4 per day. Half a dozen other Alpine resorts, including Davos, Arosa and St. Moritz, are readying skibob slopes for next season, in hopes of attracting an entirely new clientele: people on the far side of 40 who lack the nerve or muscle for skiing...
...Gaulle has maintained more than just the political power of previous years. To a large extent his voting strength is undiminished. Even though he won many more seats in 1962, de Gaulle's popular vote was within a small fraction of the 37.5 per cent he received last week. Apparently there was no significant desertion by the President's former supporters. What changed was not the Gaullists but the opposition...