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With 22 months left before the deadline, plans for construction of what may turn out to be the only new low-cost housing to be built in Boston during the next two years are at a virtual standstill...
...stakes are enormous, primarily because Middle Eastern oil costs about $2 per bbl. v. U.S. oil's $3.30. Since 1959, the U.S. has held down imports from all sources to 21% of domestic consumption - in effect assuring a market for high-cost Texas and Louisiana oil at the consumer's expense. Protecting domestic-oil producers through quotas on low-cost imports adds an estimated $4 billion to, $5 billion a year to prices paid by the users of gasoline, fuel oil and other products...
...Daphne was expelled from the state and national funeral directors associations for advertising his low-cost funerals. He was readmitted in 1968 only after a federal antitrust suit charged the national association with unethical practices. There may have been an element of jealousy in the expulsion: Daphne's three branches do more business than any other mortuary in the Bay Area. But morticians generally believe that death should be not only proud but beyond price...
...year-olds." Thompson does not, however, see a quick end to the war. "It could take three to five years before Hanoi is compelled to give up her purpose and to negotiate a real settlement," he says. Until that happens, he advises, the allies should adopt "a long-haul, low-cost strategy" that relies more on the South Vietnamese army-a prescription that fits Richard Nixon's "Vietnamization" program perfectly...
...Minister suburban Gary La Demarest, Canada, 43, speaks wryly of his mission. "In the '60s, we saw ourselves out there leading the army magnificently, but when we looked back, the army wasn't there." Now he soldiers quietly by employing his affluent congregation in the task of finding low-cost housing for less prosperous families. The congregation recruits bankers, mortgage lawyers and other professionals to help low-income families find and purchase FHA homes. The congregation commits itself to advise and assist such families for the life of the mortgage...