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Enter the Tribune. Just when the Agnew furor had some Democrats smacking their lips, the ardently Republican Chicago Tribune jumped on Humphrey. Its Washington Bureau Chief, Walter Trohan, reported that Humphrey and his wife Muriel had received the land for their lakeside home in Waverly, Minn., as a gift from a "wealthy patron of the Democratic Party." Inescapable in the newspaper's story was the innuendo that Humphrey had been given the land in return for services rendered to a man in trouble with the Government...
...Basically, we're very shy people," said Japanese Artist Yoko Ono after she and John Lennon stirred a furor by posing for the nude photos on the cover of a Beatle-produced album, The Two Virgins. Now the shy couple have announced they are expecting a baby in the spring. Said John, who is being sued for divorce by wife Cynthia: "Babies make the world happier and that's our scene...
...flow, if not the furor, is beginning to subside-and the money has started to go the other way. Partly because of balance of payments considerations and partly because European laws and work practices are discouraging some U.S. companies, new U.S. investment in Europe this year will run about 4% under the prevailing $3 billion annual rate, and may slide even farther next year. Meanwhile, the value of European-owned plants and equipment on U.S. soil is rising sharply. The total crept up from $2.2 billion in 1950 to $7 billion last year, will sprint to $10 billion this year...
...industry, it has long been an article of faith that a youngster who plays with make-believe guns is no more likely to grow up a criminal than a boy who plays with make-believe churches is apt to mature into a saint. Yet as a result of the furor over gun controls that followed the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, toy guns may soon be much harder to obtain...
...furor over soaring rents involves only one-third of New York's 2,100,000 privately owned apartments. The rest remain subject to rent control, to which New York (alone among major U.S. cities) has clung since World War II. Landlords of rent-controlled apartments are every bit as unhappy as tenants of uncontrolled units. Squeezed by rising costs for taxes, labor, maintenance and anti-pollution equipment demanded by the city, increasing numbers of owners are simply abandoning structurally sound, though rundown, controlled buildings. By owners' estimates, some 12,000 buildings containing 350,000 apartments have thus been...