Word: thomson
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Fabled residents have included writers like Mark Twain and O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe and Dylan Thomas. Today the Chelsea is the permanent domain of Composer Virgil Thomson, the spot that Playwright Arthur Miller chooses to stay at when he is in town opening a new play, and the regular New York stopover for a host of luminaries from the world of art, music, film and fiction, who, along with its dozens of regular residents, prefer the funky, faded chic of the Chelsea to more contemporary quarters uptown. Perennial Chelsea guests include the entire Fonda clan, Director John Houseman and Actors...
...than that of the U.S. (see chart). Many Soviet citizens now eat spaghetti and breadsticks made in Italian-built factories, drive Fiat-designed autos called Zhigulis, and wear clothes made from fibers spun in a British-designed plant. Soon they will watch color television developed by France's Thomson Co. The West Germans plan to help build a $1 billion steel complex at Kursk, where the Wehrmacht, ironically, suffered defeat in the biggest tank battle of World War II. When West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow this week, he and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev may discuss...
...first in a series of 13 flashbacks to "sports events that made history." Tonight: The Giant's Robby Thomson beats the Brooklyn Dodgers with his home run heard around the world in the 1951 National League playoffs. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1/2 hour...
...explanation was simple: taxes. New Hampshire is the only state with no sales or income tax, and ever since his election in 1972, Thomson has vowed to keep it that way. Nixon tried to slide around the issue by saying that the state might get enough from the Federal Government's revenue-sharing program to make any new tax unnecessary...
That was not good enough. Nor could Nixon make any ground on other fronts, including his "Watergate North" charge against Thomson for prowling through business tax records that involved his political opponents-a search that has since been declared illegal by the state's supreme court. Governor Thomson's opponent will be Democrat Richard Leonard, 55, a former state senator from Nashua and a fervent antitax man himself...