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Exemption of the MTA from local taxation "unwisely" removed pressure on that group to sell off its excess land. "Most of this property, if wisely sold, could revert to the tax column of the City," Curry wrote...
Double Time. On the biggest question of all, East-West relations, Moscow Radio kept recalling that in his campaign Kennedy promised to "recapture the spirit of Franklin Roosevelt," and Nikita Khrushchev hinted that with Kennedy in office U.S.-Soviet ties should revert to the cor diality of F.D.R.'s times. Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov has been telling everybody in Washington who may have Kennedy's ear that Moscow is ready to forget all about the U-2 unpleasantness if "progress" can now be chalked up-say, in extending the nuclear test suspension and in starting afresh on disarmament talks...
...third capacity, private citizen Eliot emphasized that the idea of a commercial structure on a site where continental troops mustered before Bunker Hill was "just plain outrage." In 1769, he noted, when the Proprietors of Cambridge set aside the common land for the public, they stipulated that it should revert to original owners if ever used for other than civic purposes...
...Moments later, as the duly elected Vice President of the U.S., he listened as the clerk read his resignation from the Senate. Johnson made a hand-washing gesture, watched patronizingly while an appointed Senator, Millionaire William Blakley, was sworn in his stead, shortly walked out of the chamber to revert (but not for long) to the title of mister...
...propaganda, and he sued for an injunction to stop the film from being released. He lost the suit, was paid handsomely for the film rights, and divorced himself from the production (after being assured that most of his plot revisions would be used and that all film rights would revert to him after two years). Kurt Weill won his half of the suit, and was allowed to rewrite his score for the movie, in spite of which fact about half of his songs are missing. (The conflict was ultimately settled by the Nazis, who destroyed every print they could...