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Blurred Vision. In the Daily News, Columnist Mike Royko gently needled Mabley's pitch for big money. "I don't want to feel completely left out," Royko wrote. "That's why I am starting a noninflationary, low-cost fund drive of my very own. About $600 or $700 will do the trick." It is needed, he said, by Roy Ries Jr., a Presbyterian seminarian who had tried to avoid violence by standing with other clergymen between police and demonstrators. Ries, Royko claims, received a fractured skull and still has blurred vision from a rifle-butt blow...
...OTHER HAND, rent control were to be envisioned and presented as only a short term, stop-gap measure clearly subordinated to a drive for more low-cost housing, it might well aid the overall housing situation in the City. A four year period of rent control, for example, might protect to some extent the elderly, and others hardest hit by rent increases without doing irreparable damage to Cambridge's housing supply. If rent control were instituted, and a pledge was made not to try to renew it if a given number of low-income housing units were constructed...
...Little Giant. For all the P.M A. theatricals, Combined Insurance is efficiently run and rapidly growing. In 1967, it earned $19 million on $130-million-worth of premiums, largely by tapping a part of the market that most other insurers have overlooked. Stone developed the low-cost Little Giant health and accident policies that are sold without a medical examination or credit check, mostly to shopkeepers and employees of firms without disability income plans. For a $3 annual premium, the policy pays disability benefits of $15 a week for 15 weeks; most customers buy two or more policies. Sales...
...goal, Mrs. Hamer said, was to provide low-cost housing for 100 black families who had been evicted from their tenant farms on white plantations. The co-op would also raise vegetables to feed the families and eventually to sell, Mrs. Hamer said...
...witnesses with evening gestures In a menacing place where ten were prohibited Many others were found missing in colossal purples And numerous raided halls. Martian Doctors recommend a low-cost global enema To divert the hot civet wave now tending To swamp nine thousand acres of Mozambique...