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...Rag in the Bag. A more radical proposal is the "negative income tax" theory of University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman, a former Goldwater braintruster. He proposes that the Federal Government set a $3,000 yearly income as the minimum for a family of four, and pay a man 50% of the difference if he falls below that figure; to give the man 100%, says Friedman, would deaden his initiative...
...Rag Market Treatment. Heath's failure to find an issue has only spurred him to try harder. Each day he hops into a helicopter or chartered DC-3 to commute to the hustings, gives as many as six or seven speeches, in between riding from place to place in a motorcade, often standing in the open sunroof of a campaign car to flash his smile at bystanders. In the process, he has shed much of his computerlike coldness. Each evening he crawls from pub to pub, swigging stout, shooting darts and talking politics before flying back to London...
Leaving the bulk of the speechmaking to his lieutenants, he has stayed mostly in London, saving himself for a big push during the last ten days before the March 31 election date. He did, however, make one notable excursion into the traditional blooding ground of British politicians, the Rag Market in Birmingham. There he had barely stepped onto the podium in the huge underground concrete hall when an especially rabid band of hecklers shrieked so loud and so long that Wilson could not be heard above the din. When police waded into the crowd to restrain the troublemakers, Wilson waved...
Wilson emerged from the Rag Market slightly ragged but politically unscathed, and ready for the final sprint to what was being confidently predicted by pollsters as a landslide victory...
...their world, the college students do so mostly to put it down, cheering on in traditional collegiate fashion the impudent and the impertinent. Sardonic Singer Tom Lehrer remains a remarkably long-lived favorite, with five current records to skip study by. A recent Lehrer tune: "Doin' the Vatican rag/ Get in line in that processional/ Step into that small confessional/ There the guy who's got religion'll/ Tell you if your sin's original." Another favorite is urbane, eccentric Woody Allen, who is currently flipping the filmniks by writing a Japanese movie in which...