Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since the Federal Government adopted Financier Beardsley Ruml's ingenious invention of tax withholding back in 1943, the system has been about as unassailable as motherhood. Government officials love it, since paycheck deductions help disguise the size of the tax collector's take. Most taxpayers also approve of withholding as a relatively painless way of parting with their pelf. Only a non-politician of rare courage or naiveté-or both-would dare challenge it. Sure enough, a non-politician par excellence, California's Governor Ronald Reagan, did precisely that last week as he marked...
...five of them with pointed barrels taking up posts outside Parliament. Greece's borders were closed, and its communications with the outside world stopped. No planes could land or take off, and arriving ships were turned away from ports. Suddenly, a land of 8,550,000 people, roughly the size of the state of New York, found itself totally cut off from the rest of a puzzled world, in the first military takeover in Free Europe since the 1930s...
...issue is not simply one of size, though civil rights and anti-war leaders are already assailing the possibility of cutbacks, linking reduced spending on domestic problems with the war in Vietnam. President Johnson's request for $2.06 billion -- an increase of about $460 million over this year's appropriations -- will be pared by the legislators. Republicans have called for a cut of $400 million; even the previous Congress, considerably more sympathetic than this one, cut $138 million from the administration's original request...
Intimate Shane. Inside its drum shape, Becket's Taper Forum boasts a thrust stage surrounded by a semicircle of seats banking gracefully upward for 14 rows. The farthest spectator is just barely 16 yards from the action and the sound is superior. Considering its impressive size, the Ahmanson Theater is also remarkably intimate; as in the trail-blazing Chandler Pavilion, Architect Becket has replaced the traditional shoe-box-shaped auditorium with an almost perfect square. The proscenium is as wide and as high as the walls and ceilings, the stage semithrust...
...thumb-nail sketches for parlor games at the start of the issue makes good fun of Parker Bros. jargon and is an amusing reductio ad absurdum of games in general. After the third or fourth game-article, the technique of reducing a real-life problem to playing-board size starts to wear a little thin, but the pieces are worth skimming for the occasional laugh...