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That 4.2% slice comes out of every paycheck until the wage earner has paid the legal maximum of $277.20 ($103.20 more than last year). Thus the more a man makes, the bigger will be the amount withheld from his paycheck at the rate of 4.2% but the sooner the bite will end for the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: Sweet & Sour | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

Everyone likes to see a monster or two in a movie--and what's better subject for a Great American Film than a slice of the ugliness of life in middle class U.S.A.? But some things are unnerving--like dead people and dead animals as major characters. Not frightening or even annoying, just mildly shocking...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: The Loved One | 1/5/1966 | See Source »

...LEATHER BOYS. Rita Tushingham, as a seriocomic British strumpet, nearly loses her teen-aged husband (Colin Campbell) to his motorcycling mate (Dudley Sutton) in Director Sidney J. Furie's slice-of-life drama about an unsavory triangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 3, 1965 | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...Leather Boys, made in England in 1963, offers still another slice of working-class misery, teeming with crises over teen-age marriage, lonely old age, youthful disengagement and incipient homosexuality. Though its plot ought to guarantee mediocrity, this colorful catchall of familiar problems turns out to be a prime showcase for some very splashy talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A British Threesome | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

Henceforth, said Kosygin, the government would sharply reduce its directives to the managers. Though the total wage fund will still be set, each factory boss may slice it up as he sees fit, handing out incentive pay and bonuses to reward efficiency. No longer will a factory's performance be measured by how much it produces but by how much it is able to sell. In a wide range of consumer industries, profit will measure a manager's effectiveness - and a portion of that profit may be kept for use in improving production through new tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: On Toward the Goulash | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

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