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...income tax, relies upon a property tax. Yet, its School for the Deaf cannot meet minimum standards for the care of children, the University of Nebraska's College of Medicine is in danger of losing accreditation because of poor facilities, and the university insists that it needs to boost its budget by one-third. An income tax now is probable. New Jersey is so closely divided between the two major political parties that its Governors have long been afraid to risk defeat by suggesting either a sales or an income tax. Yet its excise taxes are no longer adequate...
...against the Houston Colts that sent the Giants into a playoff with the Los Angeles Dodgers and then into the World Series. Al ready the highest-paid active player in baseball (the aging Musial now gets an estimated $70,000), Centerfielder Mays's raise was a $10,000 boost over last year's salary...
...current goal is 5½% annually through 1965, and to reach it the commissariat "suggests" investment and output levels for each major industry and producer. The theory: if appliance makers can be led to expect a 5½% increase in consumer demand, they will increase production and, in turn, boost the makers of steel, copper, machine tools and other appliance essentials. Those who dance to the government's tune enjoy tax incentives and generous credits from the all-powerful Bank of France. On the other hand, as one planner admits, "any French company bucking the plan would have...
...next three men will be playing their last game for Harvard. Paul Sullivan gave the varsity a big boost with his win over Canada's Dave Brock in the team finals last Saturday. Doug Walter, although seriously hurt, came back to win in the finals after the match score had been tied 2-2. And captain Roger Wiegand, who was too sick to play in the nationals, will be ready to lead his team again against the Elis...
...Thomson is after a title, as some say he is, that ambition got a significant boost last fall when he peeled $14 million from his pile to endow a charitable foundation in his name. The money is earmarked for the sort of things that might well help to land a man in Burke's Peerage: the training of journalists and the improvement of communications media in underdeveloped countries, chiefly Africa. Thomson does not deny the ambition, but neither does he profess it. He has told inquirers that he once traced his ancestry back to 1540, "when two of them...