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Minnesota Democrat Eu gene McCarthy tossed in a "working girls" amendment that would have permitted unmarried taxpayers over 35 to automatically qualify as a "head of household," thus putting them in a tax bracket about midway between that of a single person and a married couple filing jointly. Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, floor manager for the tax bill, poked fun at the plan, claimed somewhat irrelevantly that it would help couples who live in sin. "In my state," he drawled, "that kind of relationship is recognized as a situation in which two people have 'took up.' The amendment...
...garbage goal for Dartmouth midway through the period almost sent the Dartmouth rooters out of their minds, and when the Crimson almost seemed to regain its form, three beautiful saves by goalie Brewster Gere left the Crimson with nothing but frustration to show for their effort...
Harvard remained generally in control throughout the game and the only real excitement was generated by an exchange of vicious checking midway through the second period...
...Down with the stooges of Yankee imperialism," they chanted. "To the wall! To the wall!" A note of urgent pleading in his voice, Lechin told them that President Paz Estenssoro had promised a fair trial for the jailed union men. "Down with Paz Estenssoro!" howled the miners angrily. "About midway through," recalled U.S. Consul Thomas afterwards, "I began looking around for the embassy car in case I had to clear out fast...
...Jones' undertow is a hard-to-map third stream in American Protestant ism, running midway between the simplistic fundamentalism of small Christian sects, and the sophisticated faith espoused by a majority of the nation's best-known theologians and denominational leaders. It is best known as evangelical conservatism, and it stands for a strictly orthodox Protestant faith that summons scholarship to the defense of traditional Reformation doctrine...