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...retain if the surtax is reduced, only a few of Nixon's reforms would benefit the middle-income taxpayer. To help the poor, the Administration proposes a "lowincome allowance." It would reduce the taxes now paid by the 5,300,000 Americans (of a total of 26 million) whose annual incomes are near the official poverty line ($3,535 for a family of four). Some 2,000,000 families would be excused from taxes altogether. Above the poverty line, low-income persons and families would pay taxes at reduced rates. A family of four would begin paying taxes only...
...awful as this. He allows Reed to sway and scowl across the screen like an English Jack Palance, while Michael J. Pollard, as the benighted guerrilla chief, quickly exhausts his repertoire of puckish expressions. Since he attracted attention in Bonnie and Clyde, Pollard has turned into a mumbling buffoon whose limited talents are perfectly in harmony with the selfconscious, self-indulgent, elephantine whimsy of Hannibal Brooks...
...fact has not been lost on makers of children's films. Hustling for small change, they dress shoddy actors in seedy costumes, bloat fairy tales to 1½-hour proportions and ship the results to Saturday matinees. In the throng, however, there are a few legitimate producers whose gold is all but lost in the straw. The best of them is Robert Radnitz, 44, whose movies-A Dog of Flanders, Island of the Blue Dolphins, And Now Miguel-are the sleepers of the children's film industry. All have won prizes, all are marked by a happy lack...
...popular tradition is false. Far from inciting tragedy, the clergy "acted throughout as a restraint upon the proceedings and it was their misgivings which finally brought the trials to an end." (Clergymen had much influence but no office; the Bay Colony was no theocracy.) The afflicted girls, whose courtroom convulsions at the sight of the accused convinced the judges, were not spiteful exhibitionists, but felt themselves to be truly afflicted. In fact, writes Hansen, the girls had good reason for their hysterical terror of witchcraft. "There was witchcraft at Salem, and it worked. It did real harm to its victims...
...other hand, Hansen says, old Bridget Bishop, whose revelations of witchcraft panicked Salem, "in all probability" was a practicing witch. That was her reputation, and apparently she had not denied it before the trials. Dolls with pins stuck in them had been found in the cellar wall of a house she had lived in. A local dyer testified that she had asked him to dye pieces of lace too small for human use-bits intended for use in image magic, Hansen thinks...