Word: kalb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Georgia's affluent De Kalb County just outside Atlanta, 12,000 irate homeowners have signed a petition to dump the county's chief executive, Walter Russell, nephew of the late Democratic Senator Richard Russell, whom they blame for putting in a computerized system that reassessed property annually instead of every four years. Homeowner fury has forced the De Kalb assessors to unplug the infernal machine. In Chicago's Cook County, property taxes for many homeowners jumped anywhere from 20% to 100% last year. Some of the most extreme increases are in California, where demand and speculation have...
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...Marvin Kalb, Rod MacLeish and other pundits were there, stoically abandoning the Georgetown dinner table and families for duty and the whiff of uncoiling power. For two crisis days, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been in the Midwest, marinating in the heartland legend of Harry Truman. No better preparation for the moment of action. He had visited Bess Truman in the old family home in Independence, Mo., and heard a Truman neighbor shout: "Give 'em hell, Henry!" On the big crisis night, Kissinger, back in his Washington office, paced, ordering, listening, waiting. He flashed the V sign...
...Kalb, Ill., which was a major manufacturing center for barbed wire in the late 1800s, is a favorite hunting ground. Armed with metal detectors, collectors forage through old farm land, overgrown ravines and even garbage dumps. Most obey a strict credo: ask permission before snipping a barb, and splice new wire in its place...