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...fact that the rate of U.S. economic growth was only 2% last year v. an average 6% for the Common Market nations. To a man, foreign businessmen think that the U.S. should be expanding much faster economically-and many say that tax cuts would be a good way to spur expansion. Some argue that the Kennedy Administration should prune Government expenditures to make up the loss in revenue. "The U.S. farm scandal has gained notoriety even in Europe," says Frederic Bates. . . director of the Union Bank of Switzerland...
...mystery guest was ensconced in his isolation booth, and the panelists on NBC's noonday quiz show Your First Impression tried to guess his identity from his spur-of-the-moment responses to a series of unfinished questions...
...Toonder wrote in to suggest that his copyright was being infringed. At last report, no protest had arrived from Disney, and Arnhem's burgomaster thought the affair more funny than vulgar. go right ahead, he told Verlaan after trudging topside for a look. That was just enough to spur Sculptor Vreeling on to greater artistic heights. Not far from Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Vreeling is happily at work carving another stone figure: a dragon peeping out from a mushroom-shaped cloud. The dragon's face is unmistakably that of the enraged Pastor Foeken...
...almost every segment of the nation was behind his decision. Last week it seemed to many in Washington that he was applying the same strategy to a tax cut. The theory was strong, among his advisers and others, that he has already decided that taxes should be cut to spur the economy, and is only waiting for a prestigous moment...
...income tax in 1913. Last week taxes were once more a large and bristly national issue-but the controversy this time was only among those who wanted the same thing in differing ways. Across the U.S., pressure and sentiment were growing on every front for a tax cut to spur the sluggish U.S. economy...