Word: rich
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Despite its 19-item brevity, the Nixon package calls for changes of considerable social-and perhaps political -consequence. It revives the nation's dormant movement toward greater income equality by proposing to tax rich tax avoiders more and to excuse the very poor, students and summer-job holders from paying any federal income taxes at all. In two surprise proposals, the President asked that the 1968 income tax surcharge be cut from 10% to 5% next January and that the 7% tax credit now allowed businessmen who invest in new productive capacity be repealed. That amounts to a sophisticated...
Catcher Jack Turco single to open a seventh inning rally that clinched the game for the Crimson. As losing pitcher Rich Cherry doubled down the left field line and scored o a single by Curt Tucker. Consecutive doubles by Pete Varney and John Ignacio gave Harvard an 8-0 lead...
Leading hurler on the Tufts team is Roy Borden, who is 3-0 for the season and has complied a 3.43 ERA. Heading the batting line-up are captain Gene Curletti with a .333 average and all-least center fielder Rich Glachetti hitting...
...turning point of the battle was Rocky Jarvis's spectacular victory over previously undefeated junior Rich Howell. Howell, a baseline player, rarely charged the net, and the match dragged out for more than three hours. Jarvis ended...
...contrast, Paul Hammer, Nailles' fated counterpart, is literally a bastard. "There is some mysterious, genetic principality," Cheever observes, "where the children of anarchy and change are raised." Hammer carries the passport of that principality. Brought up as a foundling, he becomes an unsettling, sinister figure. Rootless and rich, he is odd in some dreadful way that puts him outside humanity. A haunted, solitary drunk, he seems to epitomize the danger and disorder that lurk in self-preoccupation. A pet cat, or familiar spirit, called Schwartz, suggests that Hammer may be some sort of warlock. But in any case, Hammer...