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Regal Cheek. The controversy flared after an article by Richard Crossman, minister in the former Labor government and a member of the Queen's Privy Council, appeared in the New Statesman, a left-wing weekly. Headed THE ROYAL TAX AVOIDERS, the article with uncommon bile lashed out at Queen Elizabeth for requesting an increase in the $1,140,000 royal budget* while continuing to enjoy "a complex system of tax privileges and exemptions," many never fully disclosed, on her private fortune. "One has to admire her truly regal cheek," said the New Statesman article, questioning whether Britons ought...
Five Years to Pay. Even so routine a surgical procedure as hernia repair can end up costing $1,000 in hospital and doctor bills. Charges totaling $1,200 for a routine delivery followed by a four-day stay in a maternity ward are not uncommon. Many such expenses can of course be avoided. Some elective operations can be delayed or even put off indefinitely, though at an eventual cost in health. Other conditions can be controlled, though not cured, by drugs and medication rather than surgery. The expenses of normal childbirth are predictable, and a family has nine months...
They are good men, in the apple-pie tradition, maybe good to the point of boredom, but that is in the eye of the beholders. They are men of uncommon decency and devotion, but none has lighted a real fire. Whether any of them would make a good President is still a question for most Americans...
...Uncommon Deference. At the Pentagon, some 75 veterans showed up to turn themselves in for war crimes. "We all want to be arrested along with Lieut. Calley," said Samuel Schoor, 23, of Los Angeles. Three of them talked with Air Force Brigadier General Daniel ("Chappie") James, who told them: "We don't take American prisoners." Others were turned away from the National Press Building, where they sought to inquire about censorship of war news, and from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where they visited disabled vets in two wards before they were thrown out of a third...
Last year there was one competitor and there were none two years ago. This is not uncommon for many of the competitive prizes at Harvard...