Where Do You Start on Tax Reform
The piece explores inequities in tax reform, noting that ending exemptions for churches and charities would raise revenue but burden members. It argues property taxes are favored as a wealth proxy, questions taxing municipal bond interest, and calls for broader reforms in government efficiency and school spending to address high taxes.
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Frank Stanton
Walter Cronkite
Chet Huntley
The Distaff Side Reflects on Paine and Satirical Laughing Machines
A reader notes Robert Culp reading Paine’s The American Crisis on Hollywood Palace and quotes a Paine passage about sacrifice and freedom. The column also mentions shoppers asking about “laughing machines” in a five and dime and the paper’s Christmas party date.
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Robert Culp
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Pennsylvania Journal
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Hell
Nixon’s Veep Spiro Agnew Paraphrase Sparks TV Clash
Harold Coffin notes public fixation on Spiro and Agnew as President Nixon, unhappy with TV mikes, uses a VP mouthpiece. The piece mocks the idea Spiro “opens his mouth” and suggests Agnew’s influence in the kitchen of politics, echoing Truman’s heat remark.
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Calley May Be Scrape Goat In Pinkville Massacre
Washington column questions Lt. William Calley Jr. role in the Songmy Pinkville massacre. It cites higher command orders, argues scapegoating risk, and notes 250 officers implicated while urging a fair trial. The piece references Medina Barker and Barker Jr. and notes the village was bombarded, with irregular Vietnamese forces assisting.
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William Calley Jr
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Frank Barker Jr
Ernest Medina
Medina
U.S
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Restraining Order Over Lemon Car Incident
Bridgeport Ohio? No. Arthur Harris faced a temporary injunction from Judge Harold M. Missal forbidding him from parking his $9,000 Lincoln Continental in front of Milton Weiss, Inc. with a lemon sign. The judge ruled Harris failed to prove the car is a lemon.
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Missal
Harris
Reston anti Semitism charge sparks caution from Buckley
On the Right column critiques James Reston of the New York Times for implying anti Semitism fuels Agnew criticism of networks Buckley argues Reston misreads letters and warns against equating criticism with anti Semitism He cautions that accusing critics risks inflaming prejudice and misidentifying motives
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The
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Agnew
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Time Magazine
Salvation
New York
New York Jets
Merging motion links life insurers and mutual funds
Two industries with assets near 250 billion dollars life insurance and mutual funds are merging operations. By September, 4 billion or 16 percent of mutual fund assets were tied to insurance firms. insurers have driven the trend by acquiring fund managers or starting funds. Antitrust scrutiny could rise as power concentration grows.
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John Cunniff
NEW York
Wiesenberger Financial Services
Anchor Funds
Washington National Insurance Co
Tsai Management Funds
Continental Assurance Co
United States
Wiesenberger
Prison reform call from Kansas column letters
The columnist asks Lansing taxpayers to investigate state institutions after reports from Jefferson City of inmates forced to crawl nude in the rain. They argue prisons should rehabilitate, not punish, and suggest revising non-violent crime penalties to allow inmate voices and public exposure of prison management issues. Mrs Herman Howard of Garden City signs.
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Robert N. Woodson
Kansas City Star
Jefferson City
Herman Howard
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