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...Court decides a great deal. So it was last week when the court chose not to review a desegregation decision appealed by Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas; the effect will be that all six states must comply with a federal court of appeals order directing an immediate speedup in the integration of all public schools. The court also refused to interfere with Pennsylvania's practice of transporting students to parochial schools, thus leaving for another day further practical definition of the line between church and state. Jimmy Hoffa will stay in jail because the court declined...
...addition to the individual income tax surcharge, which would become effective Oct. 1 of this year, and the corporate surcharge, retroactive to July 1, the President asked for a speedup in corporate tax collections. The acceleration, which should yield $800 million in fiscal 1968, would require corporations to pay estimated taxes on the basis of 80% of their liability rather than on the present 70%. The tax package also provides for excise taxes on new automobiles and telephone services (now 7% and 10%) to continue at least until 1969, instead of being lowered next year as scheduled...
...only at each month's end. While these two actions did not really boost taxes but simply made for earlier payment, they had the cosmetic effect of temporarily making the budget deficit appear smaller than it was. Corporations borrowed billions from the banks to pay for the speedup. In effect, the banks had been obliged to finance the narrowing of Johnson's budget deficit...
...speedup that was overtaking Tahoe, and which imperils many another U.S. lake of natural beauty, is the population-cum-recreation explosion. In 1956, Tahoe was a drowsy summer paradise of about 3,000 residents; by 1965, it was a turbulent tourist mecca of gaudy gambling casinos, glaring neon bar strips, and other commercialized enticements playing to camping-room-only crowds. Now with just under 6,000,000 visitors annually, even the foresight that led the South Tahoe Public Utilities District to build and thrice expand its sewage disposal plant from 1958 on has proved woefully inadequate; the plant, with...
...many of the court's judges fought the reforms out of pure distaste for change-and some plaintiffs' lawyers still feel that the speedup keeps them from fully preparing cases. Even so, most lawyers seem to agree that justice no longer delayed is justice no longer denied. Presiding Judge Nix happily reports that "each and every judge" now supports the system, while admiring judicial visitors flow in from other states and foreign countries...