Word: surfeits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Surfeit of Money. Du Pont hopes that the Government will look favorably on proposed legislation that would either 1) postpone taxes on distributed G.M. shares until the shares are sold, when only a capital gains tax would be paid, or 2) enable stockholders to pay income tax only on the average $2.09 a share that Du Pont paid for G.M. stock, and capital gains tax on whatever profit they might make when they sold. If Congress turns these proposals down, Greenewalt leans toward Du Pont's selling the stock itself through an underwriter, so as to be able...
...running just when some Angelenos were talking up their town as the site for a 1966 fair. A supersalesman who ran the U.S.'s highly successful 1959 exhibition in Moscow and lured the Dodgers away from Brooklyn, McClellan was driven into an unfamiliar downgrading role by a surfeit of success. "Los Angeles," he says, "is currently drawing more people than can easily be absorbed." To pay its share of the $65 million World's Fair cost, Los Angeles would also have to hike its already "staggering burden" of taxes, a price that McClellan does not feel would...
...Protestantism suffering from a surfeit of crapehangers ? The Rev. John Sutherland Bonnell, 68, of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, believes so. Mounting the pulpit last week, he sounded off against the "handwringing, breast-beating and doleful prophecies about the future of Protestantism" from the very churchmen on whom its future depends...
...drop them there on the last page-still sitting in grim, unhappy silence. The author promises a Shavian clash of right and left, Adam and Rib. and several times seems on the point of producing one. But he settles too easily for tepid psychologizing, of which Liere is a surfeit these days, rather than social satire, which is in short supply. What could have been a clever novel is. as it turns out. merely clever notes...
...Lady Godiva had cantered through Soho last week, she would have been too late. A stripper on horseback has already been signed to work London's "Naughty Mile." The district heaves with a surfeit of female flesh. After years of popularity abroad, the English nude has at last come into her own at home...