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...inflation and concern about new taxes and tax loopholes, long considered the exclusive worries of the well-to-do, are concerns of a majority of the population. Way back in 1972 when George McGovern proposed a 100% inheritance tax on all holdings over half a million dollars, the most vehement opposition came from blue-collar workers. A bemused McGovern asked, "What do they think-that they are all going to win the state lottery?" Apparently so -that enduring American lottery, which offers tempting odds that a lot of plain old boys can get pretty rich-like Jimmy Carter...
...Allan T. Howe was on the courthouse steps spitting venom. One reporter asked Howe if he had ever had a girlfriend in the Four Corners area--the site of the controversial Kaiparowits power plant. Howe started to answer but was cut off by his wife's vehement reply: "Of course he had a girlfriend. Me!" His attorney said that such questions are the reason Howe can never get a fair trial in Utah. The reporter tried to ask another question, but Howe interrupted to ask what paper he was from. When the reporter said he represented the Brigham Young University...
...legislative leaders gathered in the Cabinet Room, the President refused to surrender any section of the country to Carter?even the South. Warned Ford: "If I find anybody on the staff promoting that line, he'll be fired." Said one Congressman later: "I've never seen the President so vehement...
Jonathan Boucher of Annapolis was equally vehement ("If you are wrong, as in some degree I think you are," he wrote to George Washington, "it is my duty frankly to tell you so, and yours to listen to me with patience"). Indeed, when 20 Patriots gathered threateningly around his pulpit, he seized the group's leader by the collar, "and with my cocked pistol in the other hand, assuring him that if any violence was offered to me I would instantly blow his brains out." But Boucher has given up the struggle and returned to England...
...vehement author who modestly (or prudently) signed himself only "an Englishman"? TIME has learned that he is Thomas Paine, 39, a blunt, quick, florid immigrant, lately editor of the successful Pennsylvania Magazine. Just two years ago he resided in England and called himself "Pain." And pain has been his lot. He is a failed tax official, a failed tobacconist, a failed husband, and a frequent failure at the humble trade to which he was apprenticed?that of corsetmaker. His second wife paid him £ 35 as part of the agreement by which he left her house (she is reported...