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...ignore the outcries of veterans' organizations and tap the state's $50 million veterans' trust fund, set up in 1946. Even if he can find a way to get at the trust fund, Soapy will still have to push for tax increases to keep the state solvent. Republicans in the legislature have proposed to blot up the red ink by upping the sales tax to 4%, but Soapy Williams adamantly opposes any sales tax boost, urges instead a progressive state income tax on middle and upper bracket incomes and a new 5% levy on corporation profits-which...
...Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson introduced him to the throng as "A man I firmly believe will be the next President of the U.S." Johnson lived up to the billing. Said he, aiming at the Republican line on the budget: "There are two ways to remain fiscally solvent. One is to pull in, shrink back, scrimp and do nothing except sit in a rockin' chair. The other is to stand, produce, work longer and harder." Said he of Dwight Eisenhower: "We are meeting tonight in the lingering twilight of the Great Crusade. And now there's nothing...
...futile unless it's something else at the same time, such as art, which is also futile unless it is something else at the same time, such as willing"). But for all its words, what the weighty issue added up to was a catalogue of who is solvent-and who is sharp enough to look solvent-in the world of entertainment. It was something for everyone, from Hollywood producers to hall-room has-beens, to leaf through during their idle hours until the next anniversary issue rolls off the presses...
...closely guarded technical area of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is a building on the mysteriously named DP Site. In one of its rooms Technician Cecil W. Kelley, 38, was working alone last week, adding a solvent to a 225-gal. tank. It was a routine part of a process to recover plutonium from waste materials. During his ten years at Los Alamos he had done the same chore about 75 times. This time was different. When he turned on the stirring apparatus, a bright blue flash bloomed out of the tank...
...Steelie, the new sander uses etched and hardened carbon-steel sheets in rough and smooth finishes for the abrasive. Since the sanding surface is an integral part of the steel, it wears longer than sandpaper or other sanders with affixed abrasives, can be cleaned with a stiff brush or solvent. Price...