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...after the funeral for Alabama Senator James Allen, Wallace offered to appoint Allen's widow Maryon as interim Senator. She was "humbled" to accept-and added that she might run for the seat herself in a special election in the fall. Wallace replied that she would have some stiff opposition. Letters have poured in from supporters asking him to reconsider his retirement. Unless he changes his mind again, he will be running for Allen's seat himself. The old dog is barking back...
...showdown over the fiery issue approaches, some grim facts account for its support. Californians already endure one of the nation's highest state sales taxes: 6%. Because the stiff state income tax is withheld, it is relatively painless. But property taxes must be paid in a lump sum twice a year-and this hurts. Moreover, since 1971, property has been taxed at rates ranging from 3% to 3.5% of real market value, and that value has been soaring; many homes have tripled or quadrupled in value in the past five years. Homeowners' incomes have not nearly kept pace...
...basement, citadel of the frugal New England matron, for frocks that sell for a fraction of the price in Paris boutiques. On Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif, Middle Eastern and Japanese tourists snap up $700 Omega watches, $500 Gucci handbags and $500 Brioni suits. While those prices seem stiff, they are often less than half what they would be in Tehran or Tokyo...
...mother shares his garret with him, and his paintings, like his dress and manner, are rather staid. He sentimentalizes virtue, just as Chaplin did in the soppier passages of his own work. As the documentary makes clear, Chaplin himself aspired all his life to the kind of stability this stiff youth aspires to. In his marriage to Oona O'Neill, which produced a family of Victorian dimensions, Chaplin finally found it. On the other hand, as three decades of scandalized headlines made clear, he was a boulevardier as dandified, as natty, as Menjou is here. Chaplin invests this character...
After his customary ten-hour day at the office, a bright, up-and-coming young businessman went to a cocktail party given by his boss. A little nervous, he tossed back so many stiff highballs that he lost count. Feeling no pain, he proceeded to insult his host, lose control of his bladder, pass out on the floor, and was carried home. Was he fired for having disgraced himself so? No. This was Tokyo, not New York. When the young man returned to work the next day, not a word was spoken about the previous evening. In Japanese fashion...