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...necessary elements to cultivate it." On uneconomic small plots carved out of land fit only for cattle-grazing or large-scale farming, peasants often fall hopelessly in debt or become victims of land speculators. Those who still use the wooden stick plows of their grandfathers can scarcely scratch out a living on plots that average only twelve acres. On remaining private farms with prime land and modern machinery, production runs about 20% ahead of the ejidos...
...Kennedy originally recommended tax cuts totaling some $13.6 billion. But the Administration also figured on offsetting $3.3 billion of that by closing tax loopholes and correcting inequities. Wilbur Mills, a longtime advocate of real, radical, start-from-scratch tax reform, was unwilling to go along with the Administration's halfway measures. The result was ironical: under Mills, the Ways and Means Committee approved provisions that would save only about $700 million, as against the $3.3 billion the Administration had hoped for. Items...
...town, says one man, "where there has not been the shadow of a discussion for a century, where the cartmen do not swear, where the coachmen do not insult each other, where horses do not run away, where the dogs do not bite, where the cats do not scratch." For lovers to marry before they have courted languorously for ten years is a scandal...
Minter maintained that he saw a scratch on Johnson's arm, although Johnson himself thought only a slight bruise had marked the spot where the had been bitten...
...sight gag, somebody tosses him a pair of bar bells so ponderous that his arms get stretched to floor-length; that night in bed, when his sock-clad feet poke out of the bottom of the covers, a pair of hands reaches out alongside to give them a sleepy scratch. But Lewis as the alter-ego maniac Buddy Love is a maudlin letdown. Starlet Stevens best sums up the trouble: "Just being one person is more than enough for any human being to handle...