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...Average mortgage rates have jumped over two points since January of 1978 to 11.2%, and in California, Colorado, Indiana and other places they are 13% or 14%. Monthly payments are often no longer listed in the handy books real estate agents carry, and salesmen have been forced to use hand-held calculators to compute the numbing bill. Residential loans in Washington, D.C., have virtually halted...
...approximately 15 masked whites hurled stones and metal bolts at buses delivering black students to classes at South Boston High School. Three black students were injured; one student had to go to Boston City Hospital for treatment of a jaw wound. Entering the building, students were screened with hand-held metal detectors. Scuffles and fistfights marked the day almost as often as the school bell...
Meanwhile, school security personnel have resumed the searching of incoming students with hand-held metal detectors. Such searches had been stopped last spring at the school, which has been disrupted by racial violence since integration...
Warner Cable Corp. is testing in Columbus a "two-way" cable system that enables viewers to talk back to their sets by pressing buttons on a hand-held console (price: $10.95). The programs are local news and talk shows on which performers ask questions of the audience. Every seven seconds a master computer scans the 30,000 homes getting the service and tallies how many are pressing a yes and how many a no button; the response totals are flashed on the screen...
Leave it to California to take its own skateboard-that simple, sometimes dangerous and remarkably maneuverable device-and improve it. Improve it? Well make it part of the highway culture, anyway. With a 1¼-h.p. motor attached at the rear, a hand-held throttle that can act as a kind of brake and a 12-oz. gas tank, the new Motoboards, as they're called, can move a rider at up to 50 m.p.h. and cruise at 20 m.p.h. for about half an hour. They are already selling well both in the U.S. and abroad. "The beauty...