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With an eye on the farm vote, President Ford last week proposed a major change in U.S. estate-tax rules. Purpose: to protect farm families and owners of small businesses from having to sell their properties in order to pay stiff federal inheritance taxes. Ford's plan, unveiled in a speech to the American Farm Bureau Federation in St. Louis, would apply to estates valued at $300,000 or less that consist of at least a 20% share in a farm or small business. The heir to such an estate would not have to begin paying estate taxes until...
Well-executed plays and a stiff defense helped Radcliffe explode to a 15-4 advantage in the opening minutes. After Bentley stormed back with eight unanswered points, Radcliffe began to dominate the boards and the game. Bentley never...
...sarcastic, earthy blast against what Chinese editorials have long called the "goulash Communism" of the Soviet Union. It depicts a conversation between two birds, one a giant roc that soars over the earth, with "the blue sky on its back," and the other a timid sparrow "scared stiff" in his bush. The world is in chaos ("Gunfire licks the heavens,/ Shells pit the earth"), and the sparrow wants to escape to "a jeweled palace in Elfland's hills." The roc replies angrily...
...Francisco's many old-line bistros offer stiff competition to any newcomer, but the three-month-old Bar of America is booming. Reason: an unintentional publicity lift from the Bank of America, which hit with a lawsuit accusing the bar's owners of confusing the public, thereby cashing in on the reputation of the nation's largest bank. Insists Jerry Dal Bozzo, one of five investors in the bar: "We just thought it was a good name...
...whole cast of characters by the river bank, setting them down in the hooked squiggles and blots of a reed pen - pure calligraphy, astounding in its vigor. Here is Watteau, constructing with red and black chalk an exact equivalent of the shimmer of light over flesh, muslin and stiff satin that so gripped him in painting...