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Other foundations are showing interest in the housing problem. A New York- based nonprofit organization called Local Initiatives Support Corp. has loaned some $50 million to more than 400 community programs across the country since 1980. The group, which was launched with the help of the Ford Foundation, last month 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...
Corporate sponsors and celebrities have been slow to jump on the bandwagon. Former President Gerald Ford is still considering an offer to be the guest of honor, and the Supreme Court rejected the idea of holding a session in Philadelphia during the celebration. To date, television network coverage of the eight-to-ten hours of Philadelphia festivities is still being negotiated. But the planners are certain their program will sell. "It's no different from the Super Bowl or the Olympics," says Richard Rovsek, the committee's national marketing director...
...Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31 says that he considered teaching elsewhere after he was compelled to retire in 1980, but he too feels that Harvard is like home...
...often, Wills, like his subject, seems to fall victim to wide- screen rhetoric and to the appeal of marquee names: if Reagan's second wife Nancy co-starred with Van Heflin and Glenn Ford, the actors and the films are duly recorded. Meanwhile, canny observers of Reagan's presidential performance, such as Tip O'Neill or Robert Dole, are wholly absent...
However, O'Neill has been listening to his old golfing buddy Gerald Ford. The former President has proposed that they team up for celebrity tournaments, which have supplemented Ford's income since he left the White House in 1977. Tip is finding there's plenty of green outside the Beltway, and it isn't all on the golf course...