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Tjurs doesn't mean to pay a single cruzeiro. The penniless son of immigrants from Russia, he quit school early, went to work at jobs ranging from driving hacks to guiding tours. About all he remembers of his formal education is that "I learned how to add and subtract and multiply." That apparently was enough. Today, at 65, Tjurs has gathered together Brazil's biggest hotel chain; among his six hotels are Rio's 220-room Excelsior Copacabana, Sao Paulo's 17-story Jaragua and the 420-room Nacionál in Brasilia. All of this...
Senator Abraham D. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) introduced the amendment to the $6 billion tax bill. It would allow anyone paying a student's college tuition to subtract as much as $325 from the taxes he would otherwise...
Under provisions of the amendment, anyone who pays a student's tuition could subtract 75 per cent of the first $200 of college costs, 25 per cent of the next $300, and 10 per cent of the next $1000 from his tax liability. The amendment considers college costs to include tuition, fees, books, and supplies...
...decades. "Financial and accounting operations will be revolutionized by electronic information networks. Personal checks, and even currency and coin, will be delegated to a few rural areas or museums. When you buy a necktie or a house, your thumb print in front of the little machine will identify you, subtract from your account and put it into the seller's account, all through electrical signals and not by today's funny little pieces of paper with written or printed hieroglyphics. The data will be assembled according"to rules, the government will take its cut in taxes...
...Martians. Only a slippered leg or two revealed that they were real live dancers, panoplied in fantastic dress by Surrealist Kurt Seligmann. But it was natural that Seligmann would design costumes for diversion. His art always cloaked anatomy in fanciful clothes. In costume design or painting, he could easily subtract the dancer from the dance (see opposite page...