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...three large complexes near San Francisco may reap a dividend from the tax cut: their landlords have promised to reduce rents. To pass along his tax savings, one apartment-house owner pledged to lower rents $30 a month for 1,000 tenants. San Jose Businessman Larry Whitaker, president of Halcyon Communications, Inc., said he would prorate his own $18,921 property tax cut among his 150 California employees. The Bank of San Pedro knocked ¼% off its consumer loan rate in a similar move to distribute its tax benefits...
...millionaire in racing history. His victory came a year and a day after Seattle Slew won his crown. The two colts are the first back-to-back Triple Crown winners in racing history, and, with Secretariat (1973), the second and third in six seasons. The remarkable conjunction marks a halcyon period for the three-year-olds' classics. Eleven years passed between the first winner, Sir Barton (1919). and Gallant Fox (1930); a full quarter-century separated the triumphs of Citation (1948) and Secretariat...
...over the region. For that reason, Richard Nixon made the first visit by a U.S. President to Warsaw on the way home from the Moscow summit in 1972, and Gerald Ford stopped in Warsaw en route to a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in Helsinki in 1975. Even during the halcyon days of détente, this concern in Washington over provoking the Kremlin into moving more harshly against Eastern-Europe prevailed. Yugoslavia, which is Communist but nonaligned, and Rumania, the only Warsaw Pact country with no Soviet troops on its territory, were treated as special cases because of their independent foreign...
...weight of new knowledge; graduate education came into its own; faculty positions increased and faculty salaries recovered from the depressed level they had remained at during the first half of the 20th century. From the vantage point of the '70s, the years 1945-1970 seem to be a halcyon period. Institutions of higher education assumed a more important role in American soc iety, acquiring new prestige along with increased responsibilities...
...first parsonage in rural Kibworth became ever after a touchstone of the boys' halcyon youth. "They had their own cow in the pasture, their own rookery in the elms, and, best of all, the railway ran past the bottom of the garden," writes Fitzgerald. "In memory it was always summer, with the victoria plums ripening on the south wall...