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...fast and have now passed the $80 billion-a-year mark. While federal tax revenues have risen 42% to $89.4 bil lion a year since 1953, state and local revenues have spiraled 134% to $49 billion-frequently distressing both the individuals and the corporations who have to pay the tab...
Johnson's life became Jenkins' life. He was a stockholder in the LBJ Co., and its treasurer until December 1963. He handled many of Lyndon's personal and financial affairs, looked after the lobbyists for him, kept tab on the Texas delegation in Congress. He named one of his six children Lyndon, and his daughter Beth, now at Marquette University, became one of Luci Baines Johnson's closest friends...
...Pentagon's men usually do somewhat better than sandwiches and Cokes. The capital's swankiest restaurants abound with credit-card-packing contractors wining and dining hungry procurement colonels. During conventions of military officers' associations, it has become standard practice for defense firms to pick up the tab for convention banquets. Companies also maintain "hospitality suites" in convention hotels where tired brass can booze or snooze...
...program began eleven years ago, Arden House is the former barony of Railroad Tycoon E. H. Harriman. In 1950 Eldest Son W. Averell Harriman gave the $5.5 million neo-Norman castle and its 100 acres of parkland to Columbia. Alumnus Averell and his brother Roland picked up the tab for converting the old homestead into a conference center (item: a new roof at $165,000) for the university. For après la classe, it has a swimming pool, golf course and tennis courts-plus a lake for fishing and a bar for socializing, both well-stocked. Businessese is fluently...
Once Royal Crown proved that diet drinks were no fad, the big bottlers pushed diet drinks of their own. Canada Dry President Roy W. Moore Jr. brought to market no fewer than eight diet drinks, from coffee flavor to ginger ale. Coca-Cola launched Tab, and Pepsi-Cola brought out Patio Diet Cola. Pepsi President Donald Kendall recently decided to take advantage of the $30 million spent advertising Pepsi this year, has begun to phase out Patio Diet in favor of a new drink called Diet-Pepsi, which is being promoted with the slogan "Enjoy Pepsi either...