Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distressing stories about housing, both from our correspondents and their sources, come from California. Correspondent Joseph Kane, just transferred from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, made three forays to the West Coast before finding a house. Says he: "Houses for $137,000-no pool-were shown Sunday afternoon and gone Sunday night in middle-class neighborhoods such as Woodland Hills." Kane had been forewarned of the situation by a highly placed source. Before leaving Washington, he had stopped by the White House to say goodbye to the ex-Georgia Governor, whom he had covered during an earlier stint...
...start of each day of television programming. The anthem will also be transmitted regularly by loudspeakers in public squares and parks, on trains and street corners and in sports stadiums, concert halls and theaters. Attentive listeners to the anthem noted a significant alteration in the once familiar lyrics. Gone was Stalin's name in the stanza...
...adjusted to look like Chaplin's baggy pants. (Beautiful Legs have learned they can also be funny.) Apart from the possible permutations, the socks come in just about every hue and mix and material imaginable. Some striped jobs look like pousse-café or rugby sweaters gone south; others come in cable knits and heathery cottons. There are jacquard knits, woolens in every shade from bubble-gum pink to moonstone gray and Lurex numbers aglitter with specks of gold and silver...
...Stephanie's parents will chip in part of the $14,000 down payment, and monthly payments for principal, interest and taxes alone will come to $560. Laments Stephanie: "Those payments are not most of our budget?they are all of our budget." To help swing the payments, Stephanie has gone back to work as a receptionist in a suburban art gallery, putting in four hours in the evening when her husband can tend their 18-month-old son. "Some women I work with are not planning on having any children at all because of the cost of their new houses...
...fortunate to have bought?with much help from her father?a two-bedroom house that she candidly describes as "a little nothing." It cost $48,500, and she will have to spend $5,000 or so to repair termite damage. But had she waited, it almost surely would have gone higher. The house sold in June 1976 for $28,000, and has since been resold four times by four separate speculators, none of whom lived...