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...major political parties that its Governors have long been afraid to risk defeat by suggesting either a sales or an income tax. Yet its excise taxes are no longer adequate. Democratic Governor Richard Hughes has suggested a politically safe way out: a $750 million bond issue to be repaid from New Jersey turnpike tolls. That would bring in some $42 million a year-about half paid by out-of-state drivers...
...racetrack's tack room to cut expenses. Married at 20, he borrowed $250 from his bride to buy a crippled seven-year-old trotter named Candor that he patiently nursed back to health and trained on snow-covered bridle paths in New Jersey. Candor repaid him by winning $12,000 in three years, and Dancer built a five-room ranch house at New Egypt...
...independent army in check-and to change sides nimbly. Nasution was sacked as chief of staff in 1952 for backing an attempted military coup, was restored to office three years later at the behest of the liberal Cabinet, which wanted a strong leader to control the volatile army. Nasution repaid his backers by clapping them into jail at the first opportunity. In 1958, during another revolt, he firmly sided with Sukarno and got emergency powers, which he used to ban freedom of speech and the press, the right of assembly, and all opposition political activity...
...Invited to the Japanese swimming championships at Osaka, a teen-age U.S. squad repaid its hosts by sweeping 21 of 29 events. Between them, U.S. and Japanese swimmers smashed 19 Japanese and two world records...
...Grande do Sul's Leftist Governor Leonel Brizola and is still trying to collect, was noncommittal. But Goulart's decree last week should do something to ease I.T. & T.'s pain. The government promises a down payment of 10%, with the rest to be repaid on a long-term basis provided the company agrees to reinvest at least 75% of the total in Brazil...