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...Cascade Heights. Negro real estate brokers used blockbusting techniques to try to buy homes in the Peyton-Utoy subdivision of Cascade Heights. They falsely told white residents that their neighbors had put their homes up for sale and conspicuously drove Negro clients through the area on Sunday to frighten white owners. A white real estate man threatened to sell his home and some lots to Negroes in order to get a higher price from white buyers in the area; he actually ended up signing contracts with both a white owners' group and a Negro. Since...
...national budget of $100 billion has that awesome, twelve-figure sound that frightens politicians, who know it will frighten taxpayers. But next fiscal year the U.S. will nudge right up to that scary size. The probable budget for 1963-64: $99 billion, the highest in history...
...team has, in fact, lost a total of four games by only 20 points. No team has scored more than twice against the Elis, and several touchdowns have been set up by istakes on offense rather than by poor defense. The Bulldogs' scoring power has not been sufficient to frighten many opponents this fall, but their defense has always been stubborn enough to keep them in contention throughout every game they have played. It will have to be a big factor again today if the Blue is to entertain any hopes of upsetting the Crimson
...families, the landlords of Fars have fought the land distribution law by helping to foment street riots in Teheran, falsifying ownership records with the connivance of provincial officials, forging ballots in local elections. Recently, the landlords won powerful allies by enlisting Moslem mullahs who are using their pulpits to frighten illiterate, landless peasants out of demanding their legal rights...
...council nevertheless passed the federation plan, which must now be approved by Britain's Parliament and will probably be enacted by March 1963. Abdullah Asnag, released from prison, vowed continued resistance. Said Middle East Command's CinC, Air Marshal Sir Charles Elworthy: "Terrorism doesn't frighten me. This command is on continuous twelve-hour alert for action anywhere, and it can operate regardless of any misguided campaign here. Aden is the only rampart between the Mediterranean and Singapore, and ours is the only force defending Western interests in the Middle East...