Housing costs and mortgage aids reshape the American dream
A Citibank survey shows a sharp drop in planned home purchases and wages, while median new home prices have surged to 43 200 amid rising construction and energy costs. Some reform ideas include an interest free second mortgage and tax exempt down payment savings, with proposals from Sen Edward Brooke to ease early payments, though concerns about cash flow remain.
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Americans &Ié
Citibank
New York
National Association of Home Builders Economists
Sen
Edward Brooke
Doctor Upstairs and the Mystery of Dr Brown
An aging Chicago surgeon Dr E P D Egann grows feared for his methods and a fatal error. In New York's Lower East Side a mysterious man calling himself Doctor Brown helps poor children without licensure until death. The local poor memorialize him as a prophet.
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P. D Egann
Chicago
Egann
Elizabeth Street
New York
Lower East Side
Cherry Hill
Chinatown
Doctor Brown
Questioning Worth of Clinical Lab Services and Quality
A public health critique notes the 42 billion spent yearly on clinical laboratory services in the United States. It questions licensing, personnel qualifications, and test accuracy, citing cases in Illinois and Iowa of misdiagnoses and harm from faulty lab tests. It warns lab costs rise faster than general health spending and highlights a high error rate across lab types.
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U.S
Lab Test Quality in New Jersey and Federal Lab Standards
Senate testimony cites 257 labs in New Jersey performing hemoglobin tests with only 28 percent acceptable 90 percent of the time or more and 18 percent adequate no more than 70 percent. Officials urge federal licensing and uniform national standards for clinical labs amid a broader push for the Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act of 1976. A separate report details a thwarted Kissinger assassination plot in Costa Rica linked to Cuban exiles and Fidel Castro era tensions.
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Senate
Martin Goldfield
New Jersey
Department of Health
Secretary of
HEW
Plot to kill Kissinger linked to Cuba exile groups
The account names Carlos Rivero Collado and 18 anti Castro leaders, including Bosch, in a long denied assassination plot against Henry Kissinger. It traces 1973 to 1974 efforts, his 1976 Costa Rica trip, false passport charges, and later defection rumors while noting Miami-Dade police informants and FBI/Secret Service liaising. It closes with Jimmy Carter’s bureaucracy critique and Don Johnson’s political path.
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Kissinger
Bosch
Costa Rica
FBI
Secret Service
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Cuban Action
Carlos Rivero Collado
Rivero
Miami
Rivera
U.S
Venezuela
So Much For Crime And Politics In One View
A national column laments crime caused by poverty and social ills while criticizing political leaders for empty law and order rhetoric. It singles out Lyndon Johnsons travel for political aims and discusses a Hartford incident where a 16 year old girl attempted self harm in Immaculate Conception Church as crowds jeered. The piece argues for a candidate who pledges to declare war on crime and keep it.
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Hartford
Conn
William Tremont
Immaculate Conception Church
Congress
Ihne
The Comry Evering Journal local notice
Obscure newspaper masthead text from a small local paper in Carry Pennsylvania. Contains publisher George R Sample and editor William Eaton with advertising rates and display deadline details. Mentions Associated Press news service and carrier delivery terms.
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Comry Evering
Waal South Street
Carry
George R. Sample
William 5. Eaton
Jenn McLaughiit
Askodlnied Prats
Tne
Republicalen
State Bureau complains of shoddy goods in six cities
Pennsylvania Bureau of Con in six cities condemns poor business practices. Contact Erle at 919 State Street Room 203 1850 for details. Call 454-7104 area code unknown.
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Pennsylvania Bureau of Con
Erle
State Street
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Medical Society
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Dr. Brown
Brown
Ilinois
Towa
Sylvia Porter
Dr. Goldfield
Morris Shaeffer
New York City
Health Department
House
Ford Administration
Washington
Henry Kissinger
Internal Security Subcommittee
Orlando Bosch Avila
Henry
By Jack Anderson
Castro
Jack Anderson
Curacao
Florida
Dade County Public Safety Department
Latin America
Thomas Lynch
Yin
Secretary of State
Johnson
Iowa
Richard Nixon
Veterans Administration
Commerce Department
By Bill Eaton
TEM
Robert J. DiGrazia
Boston
Commerce
Barbara Takei
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