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Boston already collects more taxes per capita than any other city in the nation--and nearly all this money comes through a real estate levy that is both too high and unequally assessed. The answer to the problem, says Powers, is not new sources of income, but reforms within the city itself. "Any proposed new tax would only be an intolerable hardship upon the people," he says...
...everyone feels somewhere in his heart that these nasty people ought to be in jail, and very likely that is where they will be within a year or so, unless some judge has courage enough, despite inevitable suspicions of bribery, to dismiss the indictment or to reverse the conviction that a jury trial will probably produce. Just as with Al Capone in the Thirties, the Federal law enforcement authorities have not been able to prove a case against the defendants for major crimes and have had to resort to irrelevant charges like doubtful income tax evasion or "conspiracy to obstruct...
...determination to delay the summit centers largely around the conflict that today dominates all of French thinking: the five-year-old Algerian war. He wants the summit to wait until the U.N. General Assembly gets around to its annual debate on Algeria, a debate that last year came within a hairbreadth of ending in U.N. censure of France. But he is not, as some critics supposed, primarily trying to blackmail the U.S. and Britain into supporting France in the U.N. His real target is Moscow...
...ordinary work clothes, get through the whole ceremony during an everyday lunch hour. "Will you keep your own name or take your husband's?" an official asks the bride, reminding her that if she takes her husband's, she must get a new internal passport within ten days. After that, the couple get a certificate saying that Citizen A and Citizeness B have "contracted marriage," and the ceremony is over. "I congratulate you," says the official, "upon your legal marriage...
...Overshadowing Ruins. Though Romans have been crying for several years for drastic solutions to the traffic problem, it is only within recent months that the city government has devised an overall "regulatory plan," which is intended to shift much of the city's business-and most of its traffic-away from Rome's historic center to the suburbs. In the meantime, profiteers and speculators have been free to make Rome's outskirts a mixture of slums and squalid forests of ugly, jerry-built apartments...