Word: sage
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...organizations. Measured by its dollar value, half or more of the real estate in Albany and Ithaca, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., is taxfree. The ratio is 33% or more in New York City, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pa., and Montpelier, Vt. In a penetrating new book, The Free List (Russell Sage Foundation; $7.50), Journalist Alfred Balk argues that the exemptions have become so large, loose and inconsistent as to hurt all other property-taxpayers and the nation as a whole. Balk cites several authoritative estimates that $600 billion worth of real estate-one-third of the U.S. total-is not taxed...
Married. Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 22, only son of former Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller and his first wife Barbara ("Bobo") Sears; and Deborah Cluett Sage, 20, blonde London socialite; both for the first time; in an Episcopal ceremony in Williamsburg...
Black Riviera. If a wise crocodile once whispered to Houphouet that the secret of prosperity is to encourage foreign investment, the sage should have specified that the price was foreign domination. Four-fifths of the country's 360 major businesses are French-owned: only two are entirely controlled by Ivorians. In addition, four-fifths of the top-and middle-level jobs are held by foreigners, mostly French. The government is permeated with French technical advisers. Many of them are left over from colonial days, and some are suspected of helping French firms win trade contracts. Political opposition to Houphouet...
...movie the other night in which one character quoted Lenin as saying the two greatest virtues of the revolutionary were patience and irony. The counsel of patience seems appropriately sage. For, although we are all tired we must continue with more protests, rallies, civil disobedience. More struggle. The cost of doing nothing is too high...
...music started, but it wasn't the Dead; David Nelson, a short, blonde-whiskered man, stood stage-front with his guitar; Marmaduke played along and sang, and Jerry Garcia sat at the side playing the pedal-steel guitar. This was Nelson's band, the New Riders of the Purple Sage ( named for a Zane Grey novel ), a Western-Rock hybrid band that is a sideline for Garcia and one of the Dead's sub-groups. Before the Riders could start a second song, the fire doors at the back of the stage were forced open by a crowd of ticketless...