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...with two children, earning $1.000 a year, pays 15% income tax (in the U.S. he would pay nothing). On the other hand, two million French farm families, one-third of the population, pay next to nothing. Politicians dare not anger them. Farm income is calculated on the basis of land values last assessed in 1908. Since then, prices have jumped 170 times, but the old tax rates have increased only one-tenth as fast. Result: 1,500,000 farm families pay no tax at all; the rest pay less than...
...One evening last week a plumpish little five-year-old pacer named Hi-Lo's Forbes sped around Baltimore Raceway to win its $10,000 Special Invitational free-for-all pace. The horse was one-tenth of a second off the track record, but in June at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway he had set his own world mark for the mile (1:58 1/5). After such a triumph, his owner might properly have gone on a nightlong celebration. Instead, hefty Earl Wagner, 35, grabbed the first plane ride of his life to hurry back to his home...
...They imported from South America a rabbit virus disease, myxomatosis, which kills by causing tumors, and in 1950 planted it in Australia's rabbit-infested backlands. It spread like a grass fire, killing rabbits by the million. In some parts of Australia, the rabbit population was reduced to one-tenth. The sheep-raisers had reason to rejoice: the range grew green again and the sheep grew...
Grass for Life. If Kokoschka's students at Salzburg carry away one-tenth of his fiery individualism, he will be happy. This winter he will stay in Switzerland to work on a huge (52½ ft. by 10 ft.) painting of the battle of Thermopylae ("against barbarism, against uniformity") for the University of Hamburg. In the spring he will go to India to paint, and eventually, when he tires of travel, wander back to his London apartment. He has no studio; he likes to paint landscapes out in the open air, portraits at the subject's home...
...money is there: some $200 billion in savings of one form or another, most of which has been put away by people with incomes of less than $15,000. Yet out of a total population of 159 million, only 6½ million-or one in every 16 adults-own shares in private industry. Families with incomes of $50,000 and up, a mere one-tenth of 1% of the population, own 35% of the stock outstanding; those with incomes of $10,000 or more, about 3% of the population, own 75% of the stock...