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...twice in his address, "is on the mend." He carried that theme to Boston, and he will take it this week to Missouri and Maryland. He has reason to be hope ful. Last week it was announced that the index of leading economic indicators rose 1.5% in December, the largest gain in two years. The index, which forecasts trends in the economy, reflected the rise in orders for new equipment and the number of building permits issued...
...Invisible Empire's financial problems began last year when the Internal Revenue Service assessed the Louisiana-based group, one of the largest Klan organizations in the U.S., $8,650 in back taxes, penalties and interest. Last week the Imperial Wizard, in the first formal step required under the federal Chapter 11 bankruptcy law, filed court papers listing the group's assets as about $14,800 and liabilities as $42,019, with the IRS as the largest creditor. The Invisible Empire now has 120 days in which to file a financial reorganization plan with the U.S. District Court...
...former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978. Kidnaped near his house in Rome after his five bodyguards were gunned down, Moro was found 55 days later shot to death and stuffed in the trunk of a car. Justice was finally meted out last week. In Italy's largest trial of terrorists, a jury found 59 leftist guerrillas guilty of the Moro killing and of 16 other murders...
Describing his choice of subject matter, Lear said that he simply aimed to entertain the largest possible audience by writing about topics that interested him. "Audiences do laugh the hardest when they care, and when they care, they'll also cry," he said...
Harvard's annual revenue from the fund, the exact amount of which is not yet determined, will provide scholarships for women and men training to be Unitarian Universalist ministers, and preserve the archives chronicling Unitarian and Universalist history, which are "by far the largest collection in the world," Rupp said last night...