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More than that of most nations, the history of the U.S. is studded with controversies over taxation, from the Boston Tea Party of 1773 to the rocky advent of the graduated income tax in 1913. Last week taxes were once more a large and bristly national issue-but the controversy this time was only among those who wanted the same thing in differing ways. Across the U.S., pressure and sentiment were growing on every front for a tax cut to spur the sluggish U.S. economy...
...LEWIS P. BOHLER JR. Church of the Advent Los Angeles...
...Dior. Actually, the advent of his birthday left the President in rather good shape for retiring-if he should want...
Fiat, which had long sheltered behind a tariff wall so high that even rich Italians could scarcely afford a foreign car, greeted the Common Market by slashing its prices at home and doubling its dealer force in the rest of Europe. Volkswagen, which before the advent of the Common Market regarded France and Italy as lost causes, now has plans for 120 French dealerships, and by relentlessly efficient servicing is slowly overcoming the longstanding Italian sneer that the beetle is brutta (ugly...
...eloquently expanded the crucial role of culture in the long fight for the freedom of man. Famed novelist (Man's Fate), art critic (The Voices of Silence) and now France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs, Malraux sharply challenged those artists and intellectuals who see in the advent of modern mass culture only an artistic blight...