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...federal indictments charge that real estate dealers, lending institutions, lawyers and some FHA officials had conspired to inflate the reported value of cheap houses and sell them at high prices to people who could not really afford them. The ultimate loser was the U.S. taxpayer, since FHA guaranteed the mortgages and was left holding the low-value houses when the owners defaulted on their payments...
Drop of III Will. While the U.S. has paid a heavy price in South Asia for backing the loser of the India-Pakistan war, the Soviet Union has strengthened its position on the subcontinent. The Soviet mission in Dacca already has a staff of 90, with more to come, and the Russians have undertaken salvage operations at the ports of Chittagong and Chalna. By contrast, the U.S. appears to have extracted the last possible drop of ill will out of Bangladesh. The handful of American officials in Dacca, however, make no secret that they would like to see U.S. diplomatic...
...Cocktails (raw eggs, whisky and worchestershire designed to get rid of the "worst hangovers") and always looking for that one lay which will bring her fortune and fame. Sally is a desperate character whose high spirits are the only assurance she has that she can keep from being a loser. Given half a chance, I suspect that Miss Minnelli might have had the range for such a part--but that half a chance isn't given her. Instead she is forced into another replay of the kooky Pookie Adams she played in The Sterile Cuckoo--a spirited, imaginative unhappy little...
...measure could result in the eventual execution of millions of hens and the recovery of egg prices to at least last year's levels. Even if the bill does not pass, enough bankruptcies among egg producers would eventually drive prices back up anyway. In either case, the loser stands to be the consumer, who is already aggrieved by rising prices of most other foods...
Every one of them a loser willing to die to look like a winner still, the four keep up their front all the way to the welfare-check line. Author Ralph Maloney's point is obvious but rather profoundly true: the one unforgivable crime is to be broke. To escape this ultimate guilt, the bankrupts band to gether to commit a lesser crime: hold up a bank...