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...officials are considering a much more basic attack on some of the regulatory snarls in which housing is enmeshed. Secretary Harris talks of reforming some of HUD'S own rules, which she calls "small regulatory requirements that can consume days???during which builders cannot build but during which their interest costs must nevertheless be paid." She also sees no reason why both HUD and one or sometimes several state or local jurisdictions must at times make separate studies to determine whether environmental rules are being met. Asks Harris: "Why can't we accept their studies or they accept ours...
...said it had been invested that same year in a new "principal residence," the San Clemente estate. By law, that meant the profit was not subject to tax. But in the year following the sale of the apartment, the Nixons spent only weekends and vacations?a total of 49 days???at San Clemente and also had claimed exemption from some California state taxes on the grounds that San Clemente was not their home. To the committee staff, that meant their actual "principal place of residence was the White House," and they should have paid tax on their profit from...
...soon could the G.I.s and P.O.W.s be home? Within 60 days???or before Inauguration Day if the papers are signed in the next three weeks...
...church. When these arrangements failed, the dons were left to communicate with one another from outdoor phone booths?a far cry from the grand council meetings in luxury hotels. The vacuum in leadership and logistical planning opened the way for the sole cagey survivor of the old days???Carlo Gambino, 68, head of the largest family...
...newest hot ticket on Broadway these days???$55 a pair from scalpers ?is an admission to a haunted house. Elegiac strains of the '20s, '30s and '40s hover in the wings. Ectoplasmic chorines, all beads and feather boas, wander across the stage like Ziegfeld girls come back to life. Characters are at once 19 and 49. Time bounces off the walls, like sound and light brilliantly altered and distorted...