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High marks for cinema technique go to Producer Asher, Director William (Portrait of Jennie) Dieterle, and especially to all concerned in the art direction, film editing, special effects and process photography. Their craftsmanship has almost succeeded in blending a Technicolored crazy quilt of Hollywood foregrounds and Ceylonese backgrounds into a single mood...
...hubby. The second half acts out the Odyssey: Ulysses, a Spanish-American war veteran, imbibes city life at a neighboring seaport, goes to a water front dive, meets a Circe from the wrong side of the tracks, returns in the end to a Penelope busy with a patchwork quilt...
...junk the most inequitable personal income tax and all the other patch-quilt federal taxes and try out a simple 100% sales tax at the manufacturers level? This would amount to a 50% tax at the retail level and yet would bring in revenues of $80 billion...
...liquor), the emergency "luxury"' taxes of 20% on cosmetics, jewelry, luggage, theater admissions and furs, the 15% levy on travel, telephone calls and sporting goods, and 10% on autos, refrigerators and TV sets. One advantage of a general sales tax is that it would replace this crazy-quilt discriminatory structure with a uniform tax (except on tobacco, gasoline and liquor, which probably would be left...
...Christian Democrats had expected at best to run up a narrow majority over the Social Democrats and the crazy quilt of splinter parties competing for the 484 seats in the Bundestag. Instead, they won a smashing victory, and the right to govern Germany for four more years. In district after district, the Socialists lost strength and Adenauer's C.D.U. gained. Every one of the Communists' 14 seats in the Bundestag-including that of Party Boss Max Reimann-was jerked away from them. The neo-Nazi German Reich Party did even worse than the Communists...