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...Springfield, Va. 20 observers arranged themselves after dark under an odd-looking "T" of iron pipe with dim lights glowing at the ends of its horizontal member. The T showed the meridian, and the observers trained their telescopes so that their overlapping fields covered a north-and-south slice of sky through which the satellite should pass...
While the advance of the ribbons of pavement will benefit the lives of many Americans, it will harshly disrupt the lives of many others. More than 2,000,000 acres of land will have to be bought to make way for the federal highway network alone. Roads will slice through densely populated cities and suburbs, displacing thousands of dwellers. They will cut across thousands of farms from coast to coast, often separating a farmer's house from his fields and forcing him to detour for miles to get from one side of his land to the other. Last week...
...beneficiary, whichever is shorter. While the trust beneficiary must pay normal income taxes on the trust income, his tax bracket is generally much lower than that of the donor, in effect drastically reducing the family's overall tax. One San Francisco financier cut the taxes on a big slice of his income from 50% to 20% by setting up nine separate trusts for the future education of his three children, reports that the savings "are so fantastic I don't even want to talk about them...
...friendly Pentagon. At hearings of a Senate appropriations subcommittee, the meaning of a directive issued by Defense Secretary Charles Wilson three weeks ago was spelled out for the first time. The directive, which outlawed military "installment buying" for all services, will hit the Air Force hardest. It threatens to slice existing and future Air Force contracts by $4.2 billion in fiscal...
...much and smooches too little. Meanwhile, the salesman is pitching for the blonde: "I have depths, honest. I think I have." And back at the depot the highway patrol drops in on the driver's wife to see if maybe she isn't good for "a slice...