Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arias Orozco, who had been questioned not at the station house but in his own bedroom. Writing for the majority, Justice Hugo Black denied that he was broadening the restrictions imposed by Miranda "to the slightest extent." Instead, Black cited a sentence from the earlier decision requiring that a person be warned of all his rights whenever he is "in custody at the station or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action...
Sociologist Thomas Luckmann of Frankfurt University predicted that eventually the categories of "belief" and "unbelief" will disappear. "A particular form of religion, institutional specialization, is on the wane," he contended, and as it goes, the distinctions between believers and nonbelievers will fade. One type of person will then evolve his private set of ultimate values; another will find that he can express his best through one of the churches that remain. But Luckmann warns that the surviving churches must understand their true role: not to command belief but to help each person articulate his beliefs from within himself...
...modern industrial country, taxes-and the desire to elude them-exert an increasing control over the affairs of individuals, institutions and corporations. They influence a person in how he chooses to invest his savings (municipal bonds, cattle ranches and oil wells are among the most favorable for tax purposes). They determine many a young couple's choice of a wedding date (better at the end of one year than the beginning of the next one). They affect a family's choice of where to live and whether to rent or buy a home. Any high-salaried executive forfeits...
...correct today's inequities, it may unfortunately choose a halfway approach suggested by Stanley Surrey. He would require all earn ers to pay at least a minimum tax at rates approximately one-half of normal, thus putting a ceiling on the benefits of tax preferences. In return, no person would have to pay more than 50% of his total income in federal income taxes. Officials of the Nixon Treasury and many reform-minded Congressmen rightly fault that idea as merely papering over today's loopholes. The plan would end none of the questionable favoritism in the present...
...Along with other minor deductions, that left him with a taxable income of $866,022, all but $3,980 of which escaped tax liability because of his 271% oil-and-gas depletion allowance of $862,042. He paid the Government $397-as much as the bill for an unmarried person with an income...