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Myers's skill at chess may translate into some political success for him. Celtics center Bill Walton, who has dabbled in politics in the past, met the candidate through their mutual interest in the game of kings, and has since agreed to endorse Myers...
...announced it would provide $16 million to help create 1,000 low-income apartments in a partnership with New York City. Much of the investment will come from private corporations in exchange for a federal tax credit, one of the few credits included in last year's tax-reform bill...
...Stan got up a band. Chester Triplett, an oral surgeon from nearby Naples, took over the skins. Tom Werth, a librarian, took a tenor sax, as did Bill Russell, a retired railroad dispatcher. Pam Dane, a senior in high school, threw in with the geezers on alto sax, as did Pam's chum Diana Macumber, who blows a baritone saxophone. Corbin Wyant, publisher of the Naples Daily News, contributes on trombone, along with Jim Kalvin, a marina owner, Michael Isabella, an embroidery manufacturer, and Scott Wise, a salesman. Two other salesmen, Roger Park and Steve Chamberlain, address their chops...
...been at work for three weeks, Wright replied, and in that time has, over Administration objections, advanced legislation for cleaner water, completion of the interstate highway system and shelter for the homeless. None of the measures were "budget busters," said Wright, though three days later Reagan vetoed the water bill for budgetary reasons...
Wright scrawled, in a last-minute retort to Reagan's stand against "protectionism," a reference to the Democratic push for a trade bill that threatens higher tariffs as a way to tackle the nation's trade imbalance. The Speaker insisted that the goal was reciprocity, doing unto other countries what they are doing to the U.S. The Administration's policies, he said, are ballooning the trade deficit, putting Americans out of work and making "junk metal and scrap paper" the leading exports from the Port of New York...