Tax loopholes face scrutiny amid reform debate
Editorial notes Dem hopefuls push to close 54 major tax exemptions and phase them out by 1976, prompting Congress to reexamine provisions from oil depletion to aged exemptions. Mills and Mansfield back hearings to curb political use of reform, while Reuss cheers for average taxpayers and warns of protests from both poor and rich.
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Congress
Wilbur Mills
Ways and Means Committee
Mike Mansfield
Mills
Henry S. Reuss
Wisconsin
Egg
Wall Street Turkeys Panic Over McGovern Win
Market skittishness follows a seven point drop after Senator George McGovern wins the California primary. The piece mocks McGovern as a harsh reformer, arguing the result spooks investors despite the distant actual outcome.
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Wall Street
Sen
George McGovern
California
McGovern
Five years alter Jordan Israel border shifts
Bethlehem reports a transformed frontier as new roads link Israeli held west bank to main cities. Arabs cross daily for work with no permits while Jordan and Israel negotiate peace terms, widen open trade, and expand Arab livelihood amid rising living costs and housing shortages in Bethlehem.
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Bethlehem
Jordan
Israel
West Bank
Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
Elias Freij
Hussein
Frei
Amman
Jordan River
East Jerusalem
Agriculture Ministry
Zaher Al-Masri
TV Ads Turn Guests Into Inspectors At Our House
A humorous essay argues that TV commercials train adults to inspect homes for germs and odors, turning friends into nose sniffers and distressing hosts. The narrator recalls friends Mary and Lucy examining sinks, toilets, and corners, joking about bacteria and air purifiers while insisting guests remain welcome.
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Mary
Lucy
Service productivity debate prompts study in New York
New York AP reports a shift as service industries such as health, education, and recreation see rising spending and questions about productivity gains. John R. Beckett argues service efficiency can grow with machines and manufacturing links, boosting barbering, auto repair, and mass transit through new equipment and training methods.
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New York
United States
Beckett
Patchwork List of Oddities and Odds and Ends
HAL BOYLE lists humorous worries and regrets from modern life in a brisk, wry tone. The column riffs on guns, freckles, televised bullfights, poker near-misses, dental caps, polluted Fountain of Youth, clockkeeping jobs, stockyard scents, roller coasters, party gossip, and a final plea for relief from these foibles. The piece blends satirical vignettes with cultural observations from midcentury urban life.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Texas
Notre Dame
Accelerator safety studied new DOT standard announced
The Department of Transportation announced a new motor vehicle safety standard to ensure accelerator control reliability. It requires two independent devices to return the accelerator to idle when the pedal is released. Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner W. R. Hoaglund notes accelerator malfunctions can create dangerous traffic conditions, with rapid deceleration crucial in heavy traffic and panics causing fatal crashes. The standard applies to passenger cars, MPVs, trucks, and buses manufactured after September 1, 1973, motorcycle exclusion.
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Department of Transportation
W. R. Hoaglund
Minnesota
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