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When U.S. builders set a new record last year by starting 2.1 million homes, no one was happier than Max H. Karl, a neat, bespectacled Milwaukee lawyer. With the upsurge in housing providing the push, Karl's MGIC Investment Corp. put a huge dent in what was once the sole domain of the Federal Government: home loan insurance. Today MGIC (pronounced magic) has $6.5 billion worth of insurance in force, compared with $12 billion insured by the Federal Housing Administration...
While trying to contain Ashbrook, the White House is not unduly worried. "I don't see anybody jumping off the roof," says Presidential Aide Harry Dent. Since Ashbrook has the support of William Loeb's Manchester Union Leader in New Hampshire, he might be able to outpoll McCloskey. But unless Ashbrook takes close to 20% of the vote, he is not likely to hurt the President. The White House expects to hold the middle ground, losing a little on both extremes to the opposition-just where Nixon hopes to pitch his re-election camp...
...excite it. "Right on" or not, he is unimpressive on many of the issues he addresses. He argues that he is qualified to see and solve urban problems because, as a country boy, he grew up "where the water is pure and the air is clean." That makes little dent on big city audiences of minority groups and impoverished whites. His view of the economy is largely that of a group of academic advisors, including Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith, who are helping to bolster his grasp of the subject...
...while also killing bacteria and smells. The addition of phosphates, nitrates and potash to the mix produces a high-yield fertilizer, which is being sold commercially within a 200-mile radius of the city. Of course, the company's capacity is too small to make more than a dent in New York's huge mound of garbage. And if all the trash in the city were treated this way, it would produce more fertilizer than the area really needs. But the company plans to expand operations, perhaps to 1,000 tons a day, and make and market other...
...They didn't even dent heroin sales," Wilson said yesterday. "They thought they did, but they didn...