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...admitted, and achieving them would require all the wizardry of Republican Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Democratic Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. Kennedy went on to speak of a long-overdue tax reform to come, hinting that the Administration would strive to liberalize depreciation rates and to plug tax loopholes...
...Revised Standard Version of the King James Bible, this new group of Biblical scholars is doing irreparable harm to both religion and literature. The substitution of "that you and we together may share in a common life" for "that ye also may have fellowship with us" is obviously a plug for togetherness. Did the child ever breathe who would not have preferred Joseph's "coat of many colors," as in the King James Version, to the "long robe," which presumably flapped about his ankles, in the Revised Standard? If the purpose of the revisionists is to turn bread into...
...even given his approval to the board's reorganization. "It's not that we're trying to match wits with Howard Hughes," said a banker when the trust was set up. "We've given that up long ago. We're just trying to plug up all the holes...
...invocation, smoke began wafting from the lectern. On and on the cardinal prayed-upward and upward poured the smoke. When Cardinal Cushing finished, Dick Nixon and several other volunteer firemen rushed to the lectern. The fire was located in a short-circuited electric motor that powered the lectern; the plug was pulled and the smoke drifted away...
...Supreme Court last week pulled the plug on the highest-voltage power controversy of the Eisenhower era-the Dixon-Yates project. The court ruled that the U.S. need not pay damages to Dixon-Yates for cancellation in 1955 of the utility combine's contract to build a $107 million electric-generating plant to supply power for AEC's atomic project. Reason: the contract was "infected by an illegal conflict of interest." The decision threw out a U.S. Court of Claims award to Dixon-Yates of $1,867,546 for out-of-pocket costs...