Housing costs and financing dominate campaign issue debate
The piece argues that rising housing prices far outpace income growth, making a typical new home unaffordable for many. It contrasts 1966 and 1976 costs, notes high financing shares and monthly payments, and cites builder cutbacks and market strategies as fixes fail. It laments lack of political attention.
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Rinfret-Boston Associates
Memoir of Lincoln Mistress Says She Met Lincoln via Sinatra
Art Buchwald recounts a humorous interview with a woman claiming to be Abraham Lincoln's mistress. The tale spirals through mistaken presidents, Giancana, Hays, and Roosevelt era mixups as she argues the memoirs reveal Lincoln’s true character. A Los Angeles Times 1976 humor piece.
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Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Mary Todd
Frank Sinatra
Chicago
Singer
Giancana
Sam Giancana
War Department
Congressman Hays
Wayne Hays
Rutherford B. Hayes
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Roosevelt
San Juan Hill
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Andrew Johnson
Richard Nixon
General Grant
Pedernales
Los Angeles Times
Pope warns Catholics versus Communist candidates history repeats
John Lofton discusses Pope Paul VI and the Catholic bishops stance against atheistic Communism and its clash with religion. He cites Lenin and Soviet policy to argue that religion and communism are irreconcilable and warns of potential Soviet style religious suppression in Italy if Communists gain power.
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Washington
Italy
Paul VI
Catholic Bishops’ Conference
Vladimir Kuroedov
U.S.S.R
Lenin
Communist Party
Russia
Alfred Knopf
Andrei Sakharov
Socialist
Albania
Ussr
Pope Paul
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Primaries Narrow Gap As Carter Faces Move to Breakthrough
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. dominates Rhode Island uncommitted votes as next week's California Ohio and New Jersey contests loom. Carter strengthens delegate lead and Udall pins hopes on South Dakota and Ohio. Ford rivals Reagan for GOP votes with 9 341 Rhode Island Republicans backing Ford in rain battered turnout.
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Walter R. Mears
California
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Rhode Island
Ohio
New Jersey
Brown
Jimmy Carter
South Dakota
Morris K. Udall
Arizona
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Montana
Sen
Frank Church
Idaho
Carter
Udall
Hubert H
Humphrey
Reagan
No happy ending in Reserve Mining disposal case
Hearing Officer Wayne Olson ruled Milepost 7 unsuitable for tailings disposal, citing health and safety hazards. Governor Anderson faces a tough choice amid labor and environmental pressures as 3,200 jobs hang in the balance and party unity frays. No side emerges unscathed from the Reserve case.
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Reserve Mining Company
Lake Superior
Reserve
Wendell Anderson
Wayne Olson
Anderson
Olson
Dflers
DFL
U.S
Rudy Perpich
Minnesota
Perpich
Noise tops complaints in 1974 housing survey says Census
The Census Bureau report shows 49.2 percent of households cite noise as a neighborhood problem while crime is reported by 17.1 percent. Eric Young notes crime feels worse to victims though noise affects more people. The study covers 70.8 million occupied units with 82 percent rating neighborhoods as good or excellent.
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G. David Wallace
Associated Press
Washington
Census Bureau
Charles Elkins
Environmental Protection Agency
Young
State Senate and House contact details for district 4 and 3A
District 4 Senator Gerald Willet address at 205 State Capitol St. Paul MN 55155. District 4 A Representative Doug St Onge room 223 State Office Bldg. District 3A Irvin N Anderson 909 13th St International Falls MN 56649. Office phone (612) 296 6251.
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Sen
Gerald Willet
State Capitol
St. Paul
Doug
St. Onge
Irvin N. Anderson
13Th St. International Falls
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