Home Buying Booming Despite Higher Prices Nationwide
Washington AP reports home buying remains strong amid a 61 percent price rise over four years. Analysts say median-priced homes rise to about 38 700 for existing homes and 45 200 for new ones, with sales of existing homes near three million and new homes totaling 492 000 in nine months.
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Washington
Kenneth J. Kahin
National Association of Realtors
Census Bureau
The
Realtors Association
Joint Economic Committee of Congress
Library of Congress
Shelves Got Rectangular: Salt Boxes Replace Cylinders
Fr US retailers move to rectangular cartons for salt packaging to save shelf space. Leslie Salt Co of Fremont and Safeway in Oakland roll out boxed sodium chloride amid shopper reluctance to abandon round cartons and traditional play value. Morton questions box strength in 1976 transition.
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San Francisco
Leslie Salt Co
Fremont
Safeway Food Stores
Oakland
Crossword Puzzle Clues Collide in a Nonsensical List
A scrambled crossword puzzle page presents across and down clues with numerous misspellings and garbled terms. Readable entries include vague hints such as Fri names and scattered words like “French season” and “State flower,” but the page largely blends unrelated fragments and errors.
Goren Bridge by Charles H Gore n and Omar Sharif 1976
A bridge column exploring opponent deception on a 3732, Q1098, 8643 card layout. South declarer must decide between diamond and club lines after a spade lead as North-South contract reaches a good game.
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Charles H. Goren
Omar Sharif
North
West
Supreme Court
Declarer
Mother holds faith as comatose son fights for recovery
Nancy Smith blesses God as Theodore Asim Smith lies comatose two months after being shot by his father. Doctors at Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital say recovery seems unlikely without a miracle, but the boy’s youth offers a slim chance for new brain pathways and potential rehabilitation with four daily therapies.
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Warren, Ohio
Asim
Nancy Smith
Theodore Asim Smith
Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital
Covert
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Ronago
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Morton
Leslie
Mahogany
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Goren
Chicago Tribune
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Donn Covert
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Ohio
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