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...give you mom. I give you the destroying mother ... I give you the woman in pants, and the new religion: she-popery. I give you Pandora. I give you Proserpine, the Queen of Hell. The five-and-ten-cent-store Lilith, the mother of Cain, the black widow who is poisonous and eats her mate, and I designate at the bottom of your program the grand finale of all soap operas: the mother of America's Cinderella." It is a mark of the wondrous sea change of public attitudes that in a scant three decades Wylie's castrating...
Taxes are the second-hottest topic of conversation, after professional football and basketball. The most controversial levy is the property tax. Lillian Belicose, a widow with three out of eight children still living on the family budget, recalls that when she bought her house 20 years ago, her monthly payment for mortgage and taxes combined was $52.79. She has paid off her mortgage, but her property taxes now average $79 a month. "You struggle for years to pay off your mortgage," she says. "Then, when you think you finally own something, you get your property tax bill...
...legislators at the capitol in Concord battle over whether to institute a state income tax (New Hampshire is the only state without either a general sales or an income tax), there is little that the presidential candidates can say about such local issues. How can they soothe Annette Picard, widow of the police chief of Peterboro, when she complains that her property tax is now $1,000 a year? "I could sell the house and rent an apartment, but I don't want...
...week, with his wife, son and daughter at his bedside, Snow, 66, died in his farmhouse at Eysins, Switzerland -on the Chinese New Year's Day, and just six days before President Nixon's arrival in Peking. Said Mao in a personal message to Snow's widow: ''His memory will live forever in the hearts of the Chinese people...
Divorced. Laurence Harvey, 43, Lithuanian-born star of films made on both sides of the Atlantic (Room at the Top, Summer and Smoke, Of Human Bondage, Hurry Sundown); by Joan Harvey, 50, widow of Columbia Pictures Head Harry Cohn; because of irreconcilable differences; after three years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...