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...Ford wins, predicted Sprinkel, he will continue to 1) reduce inflation, 2) create more jobs in the private sector, 3) "follow a stiff line" on increases in federal spending, 4) maintain a moderate rate of growth in the money supply, 5) avoid wage or price controls, and, perhaps, 6) propose a further tax cut. This program might take a while to produce more economic growth, but, Sprinkel says, would avoid the danger of spurring runaway inflation...
That is right. Cigarette bootlegging -"buttlegging" to police-is a multimillion-dollar business. It is a phenomenon of the past decade, when hard-pressed state governments discovered that levying stiff cigarette taxes was a politically painless way of raising money. The taxes, however, are easy to evade. Buttleggers, according to one police source, now smuggle nearly half a billion cartons a year-or one-sixth of all cigarettes smoked-into 42 high-tax states. The Council Against Cigarette Bootlegging, an organization financed by the tobacco industry, estimates that 44 million cartons will be smuggled into New York State alone this...
...Heflin, a populist turned black-baiting U.S. Senator (1920-31), was drummed out of the Democratic Party in 1928 for attacking Presidential Nominee Al Smith as "the Roman candidate." Young Howell went to Birmingham Southern College, served as a Marine officer in World War II and still has a stiff right thumb from machine-gun wounds suffered on Guam. After graduating from the University of Alabama Law School in 1948, he opened an office in Tuscumbia. His first month's gross income: $8 including four $1 fees...
...Lions roared for a tripping call and a penalty kick, but they received only blank expressions from the referees in return. Suffering a stiff leg from the incident, Sock lost the edge on his speed for the rest of the game. With Sock injured and Herold repelling Columbia charge after Columbia charge, Lohrer's goal looked plumper and plumper as the half progressed...
...well be responsible for this fatal error. The preliminary opinion of Vjeceslav Jakovac, the Yugoslav judge heading the investigation, was that the controllers probably had incorrectly assessed the altitude of the planes. Five of the controllers were taken into custody for questioning. If found guilty, they could face stiff penalties; in 1974, a Zagreb locomotive engineer found responsible for a train crash killing 130 people received a 15-year prison sentence...