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...Vice President. ¶ After saying in January 1959 that he needed $277 million in new taxes to put New York in the black, and scoffing at Republicans and Democrats who warned that he was vastly underestimating revenue, Rockefeller acknowledged that New York is on the brink of a $90 million budget surplus. That being the case, said he at a crowded G.O.P. $100-a-plate Waldorf dinner. New Yorkers can look forward to a 10% cut in state income taxes in Election Year...
...Brink. Undaunted, Gromyko lashed out at President Eisenhower's tele vision speech to the nation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). "A policy of dangerous provocations which indeed places mankind on the brink of war!" Gromyko cried...
...sort of balanced cousin of the sicknik comedians, Newhart vaguely follows their technique and style, but delivers his material in quiet, well-scrubbed Midwestern inflections that keep things from toppling over the brink of sanity. As a driving instructor, he maintains classroom calm while he sits in the front seat of a car with a lady who goes 75 in her driveway. As an eager 1904 entrepreneur, he tries to start transcontinental passenger service at once by putting a toilet on the Wright brothers' plane. As a stiff-lipped submarine commander, he tells the crew: "I think our firing...
...sought the sun at Miami Beach. But despite the biggest crowds in history-2,500,000 strong, 10% more than last year-Miami Beach hotelmen were deeply troubled last week as the winter season ended. More than 25 hotels, many of them high, white and handsome, teeter on the brink of financial collapse; four hotels in the last six months, including the Saxony and Cadillac, already are reorganizing under the bankruptcy act. Other hotelkeepers are trying to scrape together enough money to pay the taxes that they fell behind on during the frigid winter season...
...Dandy, by Ellen Moers. A chart of the dwindling course of dandyism, from Beau Brummell, who issued dictates to 19th century England on the curve of a brim and the blend of a snuff, to the modern male who trembles at the brink of foppishness when he folds a handkerchief into his breast pocket...