Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the specter of girl jockeys first reared its comely head, the boys in the tack room sneered in their silks. "If I can't outride a girl," growled one jockey, "I'll send my wife out here to take my place." "What's next?" asked an other. "Topless go-go riders...
...stuffing her ears with cotton before each race. Though some jockeys still resent women encroaching on their livelihood, their ranks cannot help looking up to Barbara Jo. At 5 ft. 5 in., she says, "most of the jockeys only come up to my shoulders. So when they go to take a group picture, I kind of bend my knees...
...proposal is largely the result of a long campaign by Rhode Island Senator John O. Pastore, for the past 14 years chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications. Like many other Americans, Pastore is troubled by what he takes to be egregious sex, "blatant cruelty and obscene sadism" on the tube. Among other things, he has criticized suggestive commercials (Noxzema's "Take It All Off" ad) and overly permissive programs (ABC's short-lived Turn On). After five days of Senate hearings, Pastore renewed a standing appeal for rigid, centralized self-censorship. But this time he told the broadcasters...
Today, though, she is beginning to catch on as a singer as well as a song-smith. Joni was the unquestioned hit of last January's Miami Pop Festival, and last weekend she started a concert tour that will take her to Boston, New York, Chicago, Ottawa and Montreal. At the end of April, she tapes a television show in Nashville with Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. Her latest album has an advance sale of 100,000 copies, a month before its release. Furthermore, she has risen from obscure poverty to ownership of a music company valued...
...biggest loophole. Profits from stocks, bonds or other investments held for more than six months are taxed at only one-half the rate on ordinary income, and no more than 27½% in any case. Defenders of capital gains have a compelling argument: people must be encouraged to take risks with capital if a private economy is to thrive. On the other hand, many experts agree with Economist Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution, who holds that the present ceiling is too low. To discourage speculation in securities, the holding period might be extended from six months to one year...