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...bedside of Princess, Michiko, 28, in the Imperial Household/Hospital came Japanese Crown Prince Akihito, 29, bearing a potted vermilion orchid, her favorite flower. The occasion was not a happy one. For reasons of health, said Palace spokesmen, "at signs of impending miscarriage," the Princess had been surgically aborted by her physicians...
...Spokesmen for senators sponsoring the proposals said yesterday the bills had little chance of passing unless included in a general tax reform bill. Milton Wernstrom, Sen. Dodd's legislative assistant, was particularly pessimistic...
Sens. William J. Fulbright (D-Ark.) and Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) have introduced exemption bills previously, and both have bills in the hopper this year. They see exemptions as only one part of a general Federal aid program for education. Spokesmen for the senators stressed that grant and loan programs are essential...
...only to the extent that they exceed 5% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. An official of the National Association of Real Estate Boards testified that this revision would damage the homebuilding industry. Businessmen defended the present arrangements on stock options as a valuable incentive for executives. Spokesmen for pensioners argued against Kennedy's proposal to eliminate the provision excluding part of retirement income from taxation...
Members sympathetic to Doran say their candidate may not be as forceful or informed as Seymour or Taylor, but maintain that he will be more successful in guiding the Council through controversial issues. Doran, presented by his spokesmen as a hard worker, was in charge of the recently completed report on the student union. Detractors say, however, that he lacks the drive to apply pressure on the administration...