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Behind the crisis was an impending $120 million deficit and a controversy over the proper new tax to erase it (TIME, May 4). Governor Williams wants to tap a $50 million veterans' fund for immediate cash, replenish the till and wipe out the deficit with corporate and personal income taxes. Old Guard Republicans, who control the state senate, are agreeable to using the trust fund. But they want to increase Michigan's 3% sales tax to 4% and avoid an income tax, refuse to release the veterans' fund until Williams agrees. Still adamant. Soapy Williams offered...
...summer of 1926 was a 6-ft. 4-in. American medical student named Ben Spock, who owned a resplendent red handlebar mustache and an oilcloth blackboard. After a ten-hour day of shoveling gravel and sand to keep the railroad track from sinking into the muskeg, Spock would wipe the sweat from his mustache, wolf a huge supper, and unroll his blackboard. His afterhours task: teaching basic English to 40 sunburned Galician laborers. "I didn't get very far," recalls Dr. Spock, who has since lost the mustache, become a pediatrician and won wide fame as an expert...
...with the lingering flap, Actress Hayes, in a letter last week to weekly Variety, said: "There were times, late in the run, when Kim would have tried the patience of a saint, with her striving for [an] opening-night level of performance-even on rainy Thursdays. But nothing will wipe out the shining memory of ... the all too rare thrill of working with a perfect actress...
...guest at an exclusive dinner party, Michiko's millionaire industrialist father sat in embarrassed silence while kazoku guests addressed each other loudly over his head, complaining at the way things were going, and blaming all their troubles on the nouveaux riches and the "postwar millionaires." Ultranationalists threatened to "wipe out" the entire Shoda family. The police, aware of how often in Japan assassination has been a means of political or emotional protest, keep the Shoda house under constant guard...
...After strenuous but unpromising efforts to wipe out the fire ant, which first invaded the South and is now spreading (TIME, March 18, 1957), Louisiana State University scientists reported hopes of turning the pest to medical advantage. Its venom, they said, kills not only insects but also mites (resistant to most insecticides) and, more surprisingly, contains a potent substance like an antibiotic that kills many bacteria and molds...