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...income tax-because of a "rapid transferral of expenses" for health and welfare payments from Rhode Island's cities to the state. In Massachusetts, Republican John Volpe, starting his third term, declared that his state's limited 3% sales tax, enacted in 1966 after a vicious battle, should be made permanent, warned that projecting the tax structure will be "arduous, complicated and demanding," and called for a full-scale study of revenue sources. Nelson Rockefeller said he was ready to set up the machinery for New York's referendum-approved lottery, which is expected to yield upwards...
...measure in light of his treatment of the courts. Still, banishing Powell from the Capitol would probably create more problems than it solved. No Congressman has ever been expelled for contempt of court before, and such a move would doubtless be construed by Powell's Harlem district as a vicious effort to deprive Negroes of their most effective and powerful congressional spokesman. Powell would return home a martyr, and in the new election which followed the vacating of his seat, he would probably be over-whelmingly returned to office...
...wrongs do not make a right. The irresponsible tampering with the body [Dec. 2] of a helpless soul should be censured as unethical and punished as malpractice. I wonder how Johns Hopkins could lend its authority to this vicious kind of surgery, which is based on a most stupid "logic" of its inventor and followers...
...Vicious Speech. This fall Chancellor Roger Heyns has been facing student pressures with a growing firmness. He refused to readmit Savio as a student when Savio broke rules against nonstudents distributing literature on campus. Heyns said that the students' public-address system in front of hallowed Sproul Hall disturbed classes, carried "speech that is often vicious, dishonest, laced with slander and character assassination and often charged with hatred," and proposed moving...
...press, which swarmed over the campus. Many students were recruited for on-the-spot television and radio interviews, which were subsequently edited beyond recognition to perpetuate the national image of the Mississippi anarchist-bigot. Photographers sought out the most hot-headed rednecks on campus and egged them into spouting vicious diatribes and posing for indicting pictures. National television carried shots of one student pulling down the American flag and running the Confederate flag up the University flagpole in its place. According to several who saw the whole incident, the scene was staged by a photographer who cajoled a student...