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...been left by Manchester's opening act, the Unknown Comic, Murray Langston, a man who has taken a simple brown bag and filled it with a career. Before leaving the stage, Langston, whose bizarre brand of comedy was too wild, too earthy and too intense for this tie-and-tux crowd, had made one last attempt at a joke. Holding the glass high, he shattered it in his hand. "Is it live," he chortled, satirizing Manchester's TV commercials, "or is it Memorex?" Having elicited nothing more than a few titters, Langston must have wondered the same thing about...
...some ten minutes later, the broken cup is getting the biggest laugh of the night -- for Manchester. Looking at the plastic, she shrugs and tosses it over her shoulder. "Has Murray been drinking again?" The audience, a mob partial to Manchester, finally laughs at the comedian...
...describe will begin a journey toward a more productive, more competitive and more prosperous American economy." With that promise, Jimmy Carter last week announced his $32.2 billion Economic Renewal Program. Immediately the policy provoked controversy. Asserted Congressman Clarence Brown, the Ohio Republican: "Too little, too late, too political." Complained Murray Weidenbaum, director of Washington University's Center for the Study of American Business: "It provides just the opposite of what the ailing economy needs...
...fair means or foul, avoiding taxes has become a popular U.S. sport. Nicholas Murray of the investment firm of Shearson Loeb Rhoades estimates that queries about tax shelters have doubled in the past year. Says William G. Brennan, publisher of a tax shelter newsletter in Valley Forge, Pa.: "Because of inflation, more and more people keep landing in the 50% bracket, and that's what makes sheltering profitable." An estimated 2 million individual tax returns now fall into the 50% bracket with taxable incomes of $41,500 or above for single people and $60,000 or above for couples...
...Murray Goldstein, D.O., M.P.H...