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...emerging in a form that would have endangered its prospects of quick Senate approval. Committee Republicans were angered when Louisiana Democrat Russell Long rammed through an amendment that cut some $30 million off a proposed $80 million increase in taxes on oil companies. They retaliated by passing amendments to repeal some $445 million in excise taxes on luggage, jewelry, cosmetics and furs...
Sweeping Reversal. Johnson, worried that the unexpected loss of all of these minor taxes would invite countless other Senators to propose their own pet repeal ideas in Senate debate and unbalance the whole package, expressed his "deep concern" to Byrd and other committee members. With one sweeping motion, the committee then reversed its action on all of the excise taxes, thus restoring them. The vote was 9 to 8, with Byrd backing Johnson. Also lost was a proposed repeal of the 10% theater admissions tax. But the $50 million hike in oil-firm taxes survived. The house has voted...
...week from Friday the House of Representatives' Municipal Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on a bill to repeal the underpass measure. Its sponsor, Mary B. Newman (D-Cambridge) is not optimistic about the chances for outright repeal. But she said last night that the advocates of the construction might now be satisfied with overpasses at River St. and Western Ave., since no one realized at the time of its passage that the Memorial Drive bill would become such a cause celebre...
McCann concurred that the chances for repeal were negligible, since it would be easy to strangle Mrs. Newman's bill with State House red tape. "We've got them up the stream with no paddle," he said...
...winsome and unclothed blonde who is a cross between Brigitte Bardot and the White Rock Girl. The company exports about 25% of its Perrier production to, among other countries, the U.S., which used to drink 6,000,000 bottles a year during Prohibition. U.S. demand for Perrier fell with repeal and the return of other liquids to choose from, but is now climbing back to half a million bottles a year...