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...constitutional amendment to guarantee producers of taconite, a low-grade iron ore that is plentiful but expensive to refine, that their taxes will be increased no more than taxes on other industries over the next 25 years. With such enticements, the state hopes to attract new mining operations to spur revival of the sagging economy of northeastern Minnesota and the once flourishing Mesabi Range...
...heat of debate, Wilson's attack on Home was hardly warranted: the Tory leader had specifically deplored racism during the campaign. For that matter, few M.P.s believed that Wilson, who is one of the coolest, wiliest tacticians in the Labor Party, delivered such a diatribe on the spur of the moment...
...GRUPPE SPUR - Osborne, 965A Madison Ave. at 75th. In 1957 four young Munich artists began exhibiting together, calling themselves the Gruppe Spur to describe their search for a new path. Lothar Fischer sculpts figures that resemble the inscrutable distortions of a first-grader's picture of teacher. Painter Heimrad Prem piles hills and houses in pell-mell landscapes, colors them pink. Hans-Peter Zimmer paints big green frogs that seem to have something to croak about. Helmut Sturm's Romeo and Juliet embrace in a tangled orgy of lines, their faces hidden by a bright red blush. Through...
...trial by producing a fast guilty plea-a "cop-out." And, after weeks in a county jail, many a criminal defendant is more than willing to plead guilty, to settle for a judge's quick sentence rather than insist upon his constitutional right to trial by jury. To spur the copout, prosecutors may offer a variety of guilty pleas to lesser charges...
...years that any foreigners had been allowed on the 2,300-mile stretch from Irkutsk to Khabarovsk, which runs straight through what is presumed to be Russia's new belt of atomic plants and missile sites. Presumably, by taking careful note of such clues as power lines, spur tracks and freight-car types, a trained military observer could get an excellent idea of precisely what kinds of installations were where. And presumably the four Western attachés did precisely that-and more...