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WASHINGTON. Construction of suburban condominiums is spurring the city's strongest building surge since 1954. Condominiums are bidding to pre-empt the market in the $25,000-to-$35,000 price range, and are appealing increasingly to would-be private-home buyers in the $50,000 range...
...NOTE: Coverage of the flight of Apollo 16 may pre-empt some programs...
...NOTE: Coverage of Nixon's China trip may pre-empt some programs...
...fourth voyage in search of that elusive passage to the East Indies. Later expeditions established Spain's claim to them. Because there is no water on the islands, they were usually bypassed. In 1856, however, the U.S. passed the Guano Islands Act, which enabled it to pre-empt any unclaimed islands on which bird droppings or guano abounded. Under that proviso, Washington claimed Great and Little Swan...
Isaac Bashevis Singer, 66, has now lived in the U.S. longer than he did in Poland. At both terminals he has borne witness to the Jewish catastrophes that dwarf the past and pre-empt the future: pogroms, the Holocaust, assimilation and its concomitant, the dying of the Yiddish language in which he writes. And yet within this spare grandpaterfamilias still resides the spirit of a young Hasid, whose nights were animated by ghosts leaping about the Sabbath candles, inanimate objects given life by the Evil One and the immanent...