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...Prince Andrew lands in Scot land and Prince Charles in Wales to lead true Britons back to independence. The United Kingdom, one feels assured, will recapture its flag and muddle through the economic crisis. Pretty thin treacle, and, as another Victorian said, we are not amused...
...guys just weren't hitting the ball, and I knew we couldn't afford to give up a run. When the Reds got a rally going in the fifth, I had a hunch that Milhouse could do the job, and sure enough he came in and got us off scot free. Smokey was white as a sheet when he came back to the dugout, but I left him in there anyway, and he kept us out of trouble until the bottom of the ninth...
Breaks. Confusion was part of the picture, but there is little doubt that U.S. taxpayers, who are among the most compliant in the world, are in near revolt against a system that practically no one still defends. More loophole than law, it allows many big taxpayers to escape scot-free while it grinds ever more out of the small taxpayers. Some tax breaks, it is true, serve as useful economic incentives, but in the past few years federal income taxes on corporations have been slashed more than can be justified. Federal income taxes for individuals have been reduced...
...grasping. She is engaged to Ludwig Leferrier, an idealistic young American who refuses to fight in Viet Nam and faces prosecution if he goes home. In love, Ludwig comes to prize his fiancee's "nerve and calm ignorance." Indeed, she is the best literary creation in the book, scot-free of altruistic impulse, a blithe compendium of pinchy little maxims about avoiding anyone who is in the slightest trouble: "Bad luck is a sort of wickedness in some people...
...soon. While unemployment remains high, they feel business is free to increase its profits. "We'll go along with controls if they are equitable," says Paul Schrade of the U.A.W. "But why should the workingman shoulder higher prices and fixed wages when the profitmakers are getting away scot-free...