Renters Drive Hidden Billion-Dollar Furniture Market
American mobility spurs a growing furniture rental industry with about 200 million yearly, projected to reach 1 billion by the early 1980s. GranTree Furniture Rental, a leader with 63 stores, notes ten month payback and eight to nine month rentals amid rising singles, divorces, and relocating households.
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UPI
New York
Walker Treece
GranTree Furniture Rental Corp
Portland
Ore
Costa Mesa
Calif
U.S
Treece
United Press _ International
Boston
GranTree
United States
Canada
Mohasco Corp
Cort Furniture Rental Co
National Service Industries
Cache of century old French wines eyed at rare auction
A New York historical group found 372 bottles in the Ten Broeck Mansion cellar in Albany including Chambertin 1875 and Mouton Rothschild 1875. 218 bottles are in mint to near mint condition and could fetch 35 000 to 100 000 dollars at Heublein's May auction in Atlanta. Proceeds support restoration of the mansion built for Revolutionary War general Abraham Ten Broeck and his wife Elizabeth Van Rensselaer.
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Hartford, Conn
UPI
New York
Ten Broeck
Albany
N.Y
James M. Flavin
Albany County Historical Association
Heublein
Atlanta
McNally
Abraham Ten Broeck
Elizabeth van Rensselaer
Activist refuses to cooperate with FBI in New York bomb probe
Van Lucero a 22 year old Crusade for Justice member from Denver says he will not testify before a federal grand jury in New York about the FALN bombings. He was ordered to appear Jan 9 and claims the subpoena subverts his rights. Rodolfo Gonzales disputes Lucero’s links to FALN.
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Denver
UPI
New York
FBI
Chicago
van Lucero
Crusade For Justice
Hitler childhood dream to become Catholic bishop revealed
Milan based news magazine Oggi reports relatives of Adolf Hitler in Austrian villages recall his early years. They describe a restless youth with a brief obsession over becoming a bishop and recount family hardship during and after his rise to power.
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Milan
Italy
UPI
Adolf Hitler
Oggi
Hitler
Anton Schmidt
Adolf
NBC examines American medicine in a three hour documentary
NBC presents Medicine in America Life Death and Dollars a three hour program airing January 3 8 11 p m Eastern time hosted by Tom Snyder with Edwin Newman Jane Pauley Betty Rollin and Carl Stern. The piece surveys lack of family physicians high hospital costs impersonal care and the role of specialized medicine while noting Tufts Mississippi Delta efforts that improved preventive care and cut black infant mortality.
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America
NBC
Tom Snyder
Edwin Newman
Jane Pauley
Betty Rollin
Carl Stern
Jack Geiger
Tufts University
Mississippi Delta
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Gran- Tree
Scarbon Hill
Raleigh Miller
Legion Post
Washington
Morris
Uncle John
Godley
Jim Ramsey
Ramrods
FALN
Fuerzas Armandas de Liberacion Nacional Spanish For
Armed Forces For National Liberation of
Puerto Rico
Lucero
Rodolfo Gonzales
The
Crusade
Schmidt
Tony’s Beach & Hot Dog
Savon Station
Red Sea
George Burns
John Denver
Teri Garr
Donald Pleasence
API
Lincoln Park Zoo
Chuck's Pub
Coal City
Sam's
White Willow Cafe
Morrison Rt. 47
White Willow Rd
the Town House
E. Jackson
Bonanza
Portraida
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