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Taxes. Well aware that they must pass the biggest tax bill in U.S. history, Congressmen pored over plans and statistics. Mused "Muley" Doughton: Congressmen were doing nothing else but answering letters on the Ruml pay-as-you-go plan. Said Massachusetts' Allen Towner Treadway: "Pay-as-you-go collection of income taxes is absolutely imperative...
Some ten yards from the bank the left tread of the rear tank climbed out of the treadway. The tank teetered for a fraction of a second, then the pontoons shifted. With treads still grinding and motor roaring, the tank plunged off the submerging treadway into the river, sank in a swirl of bubbling water. Almost on top of it plunged the tank ahead, down into the river out of sight...
...Massachusetts' First Congressional District Raymond Leslie Buell, 46, scholar, foreign-affairs expert, has entered the Republican primary for Congress against Allen Towner Treadway, 74, conservative Congressman for 29 years (TIME, July 20). Quiet, bespectacled Raymond Buell is running on a one-plank platform: How can Congress be improved? Unless Congress stops playing politics and buckles down to its job, he thinks, the war may be longer, the peace might be botched. One night last week friends of Mr. Buell's came to his house in Richmond in a hayrack, carried him down to the Town Hall. There...
Last week a younger man, a scholar, editor, lecturer, challenged Oldster Treadway's right to sit longer in Congress, accused conservatives of killing the Republican Party. Pundit Raymond Leslie Buell announced that he would run on a one-plank platform: What is wrong with the membership of Congress and what can be done to improve...
...Foreign Policy Association; chairman of the FORTUNE Round Table; faculty member at Occidental, Princeton, Columbia, New School of Social Research; traveler; student. History in the next century, he believes, will be determined by U.S. activities in the next few years. Meanwhile, the histories of Messrs. Buell and Treadway, as well as that of the First Massachusetts District, will be determined in a ding-dong scramble in the next nine weeks. Last week Amateur Politico Buell seemed to have at least a 50-50 chance...