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More from Less. One suggested way to realign the design would be for cities and suburbs to combine their spending and tax collecting, for the sake of efficiency and economy. States could also raise more revenue with less pain if they abandoned most nuisance taxes in favor of income taxes, which grow along with the economy, and they could lower sales taxes by reducing the number of exempted goods, such as food and drugs. Economists reckon that with such changes the states last year could have increased their sales-and incometax revenues by $5 billion. Of course, the states...
...fulfill this specific commitment, negotiations which would realign South Vietnamese politics with military facts must be achieved. For the moment, however, Hanoi's apparent insistence that the NLF should be "the sole representative of the South Vietnamese people" poses a block to such negotiations. The problem of American policy, then, is one of convincing Hanoi to negotiate while avoiding tactics which involve unthinkable costs and unreachable goals...
...followed, it said, all state senators would have to run at large in 1966 (as did all representatives in 1964). Two weeks later, the State Supreme Court, while agreeing that the present appor tionment was unconstitutional, asserted its own jurisdiction, gave the senate until this July 1 to realign itself. The federal court refused to yield jurisdiction. But the Supreme Court ordered the federal court to step aside and give the Illinois bench "a reasonable time" to achieve reapportionment. - Declined to rule on the constitutionality of an Idaho reapportionment plan, adopted by the legislature last March, and passed the question...
From Vienna's stately Hofburg Palace, where the Congress of Vienna met to realign Europe 150 years ago, five Prime Ministers and two other representatives of Europe's Outer Seven last week called for a meeting with ministers of the Common Market. They wanted to discuss "strengthening cooperation" and "coordinating policies" of the two blocs. Explained the man who had convened the Seven, Britain's Harold Wilson: "We are in our citadel, they are in theirs. There is no suggestion we should come out of ours waving a white flag. All we suggest is that we both...
...acre estate in Derbyshire by painting blue Chinese ideographs on a herd of white cows. "Poor little 'E' " came along, and he decided to redecorate his gangling and disjointed daughter. When she was eleven he fitted her from head to foot with orthopedic braces designed to realign her physique-not omitting a steel clamp that gripped her nose and was "regulated by a lock-and-key system...