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Soloway opposes a sales tax, even as a stop-gap, fund-raising measure. He attacks it for the increased costs of administrating a new tax as well as unfairness to taxpayers and denies that any sales tax is necessary, since a "properly revised income tax can produce as much tax revenue as we need...
Although the team will miss the services of Ralph Perry, senior John Read could fill in the gap, as the rugged five-mile course is made for him. Either Dyke Benjamin or Bill Thompson will be the seventh starter for the varsity...
...bitterly that cheap foreign oil is wrecking domestic markets, keeping prices at low levels when they need more money to pour into new exploration. Importers (i.e.. Gulf Oil Corp., Shell Oil, Standard Oil of N.J.) counter that high imports are necessary to keep down prices by filling the gap between U.S. production and consumption, and that the import restrictions are in conflict with U.S. aims for freer world trade...
Gold balances were down again last month, and Britain's trade gap was still widening. The cost of living inched higher, helped by a penny rise in bread prices. The 20,000 reservists called to the colors because of the Suez crisis were restive and kicking up trouble in Cyprus and Malta military camps, and barracks at home. Millions of Englishmen were disgruntled at the course of Suez. Tories themselves were grumbling about their leaders. "We want more Conservatism, more quickly," cried fire-breathing Conservative Peter Emery of Reading, "and more guts in leadership...
...draft was meant to fall on all young men equally, not to serve as a stop-gap prod to enlistment. Many young men can today avoid military service. The full needs of the Armed services were met last year with 507,000 draftees and volunteers out of a pool of one million of draft age. The pool will get larger and larger, and those drafted or volunteering will be a smaller proportion than they...