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∙ STOCK DIVIDENDS. Kennedy asked repeal of provisions that now allow a stockholder 1) to exclude from taxable income the first $50 of dividends received in a year, and 2) to subtract 4% of dividends beyond that amount directly from his tax bill. The committee repealed the 4% deduction, but...
Rise of the Critics. Meanwhile the country's timber-based economy stagnated. This year France cut off its $1,100,000 annual dole, and Youlou raised taxes. Basic food prices doubled, and as bush people kept streaming into crowded Brazzaville, 19 out of every 20 Africans in the city...
In ten years of the "Harnwell climate," Penn has nearly doubled faculty salaries, tripled scholarship aid, and boosted research contracts to $26 million. The operating budget has almost tripled, to $75 million; endowment has more than doubled, to $86 million. In Harnwell's reign, Penn has completed 45 major...
Union-Made. Nonetheless, the union has doubled its membership since Megel took over in 1952. It does well in industrial areas, notably in the Midwest. It claims 50% of Detroit's classroom teachers and 75% of Chicago's, although neither city yet recognizes it as sole bargaining agent...
Vitality & Concern. A new generation of questioning clergy is now trying to build on this residual national memory. The church may have only 3,000,000 attentive faithful, but, as one observer points out, "they are active in church because they want to be." Many of these laymen want a...