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...campaign has been the costliest in Cambridge history, with five candidates collecting more than $12,000 each by October...
...current campaign for the nine seats on the Cambridge City Council will be the costliest ever, according to financial disclosure documents filed yesterday...
...violent summer of 1967, Detroit became the scene of the bloodiest uprising in half a century and the costliest in terms of property damage in U.S. history. At week's end, there were 41 known dead, 347 injured, 3,800 arrested. Some 5,000 people were homeless (the vast majority Negro), while 1,300 buildings had been reduced to mounds of ashes and bricks and 2,700 businesses sacked. Damage estimates reached $500 million. The riot surpassed those that had preceded it in the summers of 1964 and 1965 and 1966 in a more fundamental way. For here...
Veterans of the Pope's 17 previous foreign pilgrimages rated this one among the toughest-and costliest. Reporters were expected to pay on arrival, in foreign exchange, for all services that they would need from the Polish agency Interpress. Among the fees: $70 just to get into a room with telephones and telex transmission machines, with further costs for actually using the facilities; up to $150 a night for double hotel rooms or, when they were full, $45 a night for space in a youth hostel; $230 a day for a Ford Granada car and driver...
Next fall Stanford will be increasing its tuition, room and board by 9.3%, to nearly $13,000. As a group, the Ivy League schools will remain the costliest in the country. Yale will jump 10.1% to $12,980, Princeton 12.6% to $12,910, and Columbia College anticipates a 12% boost to $12,750. Harvard will increase its tab by merely 8.7%, its lowest rise in four years. Even at $13,150, Harvard will not reign as the most expensive university in the U.S. Two that are costlier: Bennington College ($13,510) and M.I.T...