September 1969
In This Issue
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Articles
Rosimaya
People on Spits and Other Niceties
The Dying Village
The Shadow of the Stake
Plotter and Plodder
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Middle East: 2. The Fedayeen
Movies: Flicks Can Still Be Fun!
Music: The American Musical Digest
Short Reviews: Books
Thirteen brief book reviews
Haiti
Los Angeles
The Middle East: 1. A View From the UN
The Young and the Old
Notes on a New History, Part I
"Tell Me, Doctor, Will I Be Active Right Up to the Last?"
Why Automobile Insurance Rates Keep Going Up
The President's Making of History
Oil and Politics
Taxes and efforts to avoid them are always with us. The price the public pays —in lost tax revenues and in high prices — because of a device called the depletion allowance is examined here in detail. The forty-three-year-old provision in the tax laws benefits all who profit from taking oil and other minerals out of the American soil and even companies that traffic in oyster shells. Now battle over the controversial but durable depletion allowance has been joined in Congress. Another battle over oil-import restrictions, with even larger stakes for the oil companies and the consuming public, looms ahead. The subject is a difficult one, but taxpayers as well as tax-avoiders are urged to immerse themselves in this carefully researched study by a diligent and literate journalist.
Preface to Anonymous Max
An Unknown Western-Union Boy
Adventures in the Sponge Trade
