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...till now, Government tax policy has deliberately fostered that tradition. The deductibility of charitable gifts is based on the idea that it is good for a great many people, independently, privately, to contribute to charitable, religious, scientific and educational activities of their choice. Such giving supports the American pluralism that allows all kinds of people to take the initiative in all kinds of activities. In reality, the tradition that has produced the innumerable institutions that are sometimes called the nonprofit sector lies at the very heart of our intellectual and spiritual strivings. The deductibility of charitable donations has been only...
...quality was that he was good at lovemaking. Death has not reformed him, and in his scapegrace way he tries to get her into bed. She is tempted, but refuses, saying that it would not be decent. Nonsense, says Vadinho, we're married. But she knows all about "Till death do us part," and she is not having any, although it's clear that the idea appeals...
...Miss Mona (Carlin Glynn), whom no one would presume to call a madam, the girls feel that this house is cozier than home. But a puritan nemesis stalks them: a local TV Savonarola nicknamed "Watchdog" (Clint Allmon) who is bent on inflaming the Bible thumpers and incriminating the pols till they close down the Chicken Ranch...
Like the Mikado, who sentenced prosy society bores "to hear sermons from mystical Germans who preach from ten till four," imaginative judges like to find ways to make the punishment fit the crime. San Diego Municipal Judge Artie Henderson sends teen-agers caught purse snatching from old ladies to work in convalescent homes. Graffiti artists in New York City have been ordered to swap their paint sprayers for cleaning brushes. A professor arrested in a protest demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer...
Takeover artists are often suspected of wanting to tap the till of the target company, but hardly any ever admit it-let alone boast about it. An exception is T. Roland Berner, chairman of Curtiss-Wright, who is campaigning to unseat directors of Kennecott Copper and install his own board in a shareholder election May 2. In the most unusual proxy statement in recent years, Berner last week vowed that if Curtiss-Wright gets control, it will distribute some $660 million of Kennecott's assets to stockholders-who prominently include Curtiss-Wright. It owns 3.3 million Kennecott shares...