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...levies, said Fleming. But the Tories had plenty of long-range ideas about how to help Canada's economy at the expense of U.S. investors. Domestic companies, said Fleming, will get faster tax write-offs and lower income taxes. To nonresidents went notification that the government intends to sock them much harder. U.S. holders of Canadian stocks will pay a new 15% withholding tax on dividends; so will the holders of federal and provincial bonds. There will also be a tax jump from 5% to 15% on dividends transferred from Canadian subsidiaries to U.S. parent corporations. Unincorporated Canadian branches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Rx: Canadianization | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...during practice sessions and an exhibition game with the Chicago Bears, yielding such odd fragments as a defensive signal that goes "Brigitte Bardot double blitz" and a sharp warning from Huff to an elbow-throwing Bear: "You do that one more time, 88, and I'm going to sock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The News That's Fit to Tape | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...fell into the State." Shrewd, wary, knowing, and precociously cynical, Dinger is yet troubled by Wordsworthian intimations of immortality. Dimly, he is aware that the presence of a soul is a handicap in his strife with life. Of the soul, he observes: "I'd rather have a sock full of two-bob bits." Thus, it is not a tram but a moral issue that runs over Dinger Bell. By the time he has won his first stripe, Dinger also wears the common wound stripe of moral cowardice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Sink of Oujamaflick | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...light of those precedents, the Kennedy-Johnson marriage did not seem so astonishing after all. Thus, as in most instances of sock-and-swat Democratic brawls, the bright sun of unity shone down on the happy pair as they hopped onto their steamroller and gaily left town for their honeymoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Fair Lyndon | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

...Sock the Rich. In Albuquerque, District Director Ernest W. Bacon of the Internal Revenue Service received 12? from a nine-year-old boy with a note attached: "Allowance, 50? per week, 50 times 26 [sic] equals $26; pulling nails, 25?; letting Joe hit me, 5?; not hitting him back, 3? ; cleaning up after dog, 25? ; painting doors, 50?; total $27.08. Spent all but 12?, am sending you and this makes me even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 7, 1960 | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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