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...Soft-Shoe Act. Lindsay's other problems seemed almost trivial beside New York City's financial morass. Though Candidate Lindsay blithely said, "There is no question but that the line must be held on taxation," Mayor Lindsay inherited a $400 million deficit in the current fiscal year and an anticipated shortage of nearly $600 million next year. Lindsay now seeks $780 million a year in new tax revenue, including an income levy on residents and commuters that would give New Yorkers the dubious distinction of being the most highly taxed metropolitanites in the country. For this measure...
...buildings and parks. Though Lindsay's vaunted equanimity has also suffered, he recovered his good humor long enough to supply a surprise postscript to the annual musical lampoon staged by political reporters. Always a show business buff, Lindsay donned straw hat, white gloves and cane for a soft-shoe song-and-dance routine with a professional partner. "Maybe," he quipped, "I can save this show yet." That hopeful observation was clearly not limited to the evening's entertainment...
...among 19 million citizens). Khrushchevian "goulash"-the consumer goods that all Eastern European governments now crave-is evident but still in short supply. Because of economic planning that, despite reforms, is still harshly controlled from the top, there may be a glut of pineapple and an absence of avocado. Shoe prices can soar as high in Hungary as a week's wages ($33) and fall correspondingly
...purchased. Corruption is so much a companion of nationhood in some countries that it has become an integral part of the fabric of government. When the army took over in Nigeria in January, they found that Finance Minister Okotie-Eboh had arbitrarily raised tariffs to protect his own private shoe factory, and for a price was willing to do the same for others. One Laotian general on a salary of $250 a month supported his family and 32 relatives in style-all in the same house-by letting opium smugglers use army trucks and planes to move the stuff...
...Vienna, Conductor Julius Rudel spent endless hours building miniature theaters and staging puppet operas-Salome in a shoe box, Parsifal in a packing crate. The training proved to be apt preparation for his job as director of the New York City Opera. For the past eight years, operating on a budget that would pass for carfare at the Metropolitan Opera, he has been nurturing his company in a glorified Manhattan shoe box called City Center. Last week, like slum kids transported to the country, Rudel and his 200-member troupe moved into the spacious luxury of the New York State...