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...government. Under scrutiny is $13 a week paid to all mothers for each child under 16, regardless of wealth. The government has already modified an income- support program that in one notorious case gave an unemployed insurance executive $2,750 a week for mortgage payments on a $1.5 million mansion...
...sardonic Kennedy scene still intrigues. After the summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, the weary President with an aching back had a few friends in for dinner in the old mansion where he stayed in Palm Beach. Frank Sinatra crooned from records in the background. There were daiquiris and pompano and deep talk about the Soviet menace. Kennedy weighed the Soviet leaders and their diplomats, then suddenly said, "You know that they have an atomic bomb in the attic of the Soviet Union embassy up on 16th Street? If war comes, they are going to trigger it and take...
...third nationally spotlighted race, for Governor of Virginia, former state attorney general Mary Sue Terry at one point held a 29-point lead in some polls over Republican George Allen. But by Election Day, Allen had convinced many voters that Terry's Democrats were treating the Governor's mansion as a virtual hereditary monarchy; he won by a lopsided 17 points to complete one of the most amazing turnarounds ever. In a less noticed but important contest, Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit for 20 years, sought to anoint Sharon McPhail as his successor; she was buried under a 12-point...
...borrowed from friends to invest more than $300,000 in his fighter. Those days of debt are gone. This month, construction will begin on the $6.6 million house Bowe is building in Fort Washington, Maryland, where he moved 2 1/2 years ago. The ( 32,000-sq.-ft. mansion includes six bedrooms, a 25-seat movie theater, a four- lane bowling alley and a fully equipped...
...Sweet Bunch" at 9 p.m. The diary of the lifeand death of a group of young misfits who turn anold mansion into a commune, while under thesurveillance of an undefined authoritarian group.The film involves four amoral heroes consciouslyabandoning social rites, while seeking thegreatest possible freedom, companionship and truelove, eventually choosing their own means ofdeath...