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...Vatican spokesman." Even after the press office was set up, a reporter might wait a week to have a question answered, and then perhaps only with a "No comment." Newsmen covering the Bishops' Synod this month were therefore pleasantly surprised to find basic official information almost as plentiful as holy water at Easter...
...Guerrant, president of Libby, McNeill & Libby, which has a low-calorie canned-fruit line, called the Government ban "unwarranted." He asked that the Feb. 1 deadline for withdrawing all items containing cyclamates be extended to Sept. 1. Meanwhile, the search for a palatable low-calorie formula goes on. Almost a dozen diet-food producers have approached Adolph's Food Products, which manufactures a sugar substitute composed mainly of glycine, an amino acid...
Finding a place to live today is a trauma for millions of Americans. During the past two years, the price of houses has risen almost twice as fast as the over all cost of living. The average new house in the U.S. now sells for about $26,000; the same one would have cost $20,200 in 1966. In many suburbs, prices have jumped a good deal faster than that. At the same time, the overwhelming demand for apartments has pushed up rents, and vacancy rates have fallen to the lowest level in twelve years...
...cost soars, something else in the budget has to give. Most of the 40 million U.S. residents who move each year must now make difficult compromises: they must pay higher prices than they had budgeted, or accept less living space, longer commuting or lower school standards. The problem affects almost everybody-the rich in luxury apartments, the middle class in suburban subdivisions, the poor in festering slums. In order to make bigger down payments, many middle-class families are forced to borrow from relatives. The poor feel the pinch most of all, since they pay a larger share of their...
Prices continue to rise partly because the supply of houses and apartments is not adequate. The U.S. has long taken pride in being the best-housed nation in the world, but today-despite its riches and technological power-it has slipped behind the pace of almost every big country in Western Europe in construction per capita (see chart following page). Even the U.S.S.R. puts up more housing than the U.S., though the Soviets' prefabricated apartments are so cramped and shoddy that most would be unrentable to middle-class Americans. George Romney, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, calculates...