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...minimum and tax benefits at a maximum. Since a park contains few permanent structures, Carlsberg pays lower property taxes than he would on a shopping center or an office building. Tax benefits accrue to his tenants as well. Owners of mobile homes, which are regulated by state motor-vehicle bureaus instead of by local assessors, frequently pay lower taxes than they would on conventional homes-a system that many mayors consider unfair. For that reason, some communities have placed a moratorium on new mobile-home parks. By taking advantage of tax shelters and using mostly borrowed money, Carlsberg aims...
Although Wise's sequences are for the must part carefully possed and shot-many of the individual frames are sensitive and considered views of individuals-other photographers have attempted to incorporate accident into the order of the sequence. Use of the motor-advanced still camera or film frames enables the photographer to chose the exact moments he wants to combine, Bringing this tendency to its extreme. Pierre Cordier (whose work was featured in a show at the Fogg in 1971) allows chemicals to form patterns directly on unexposed film, and calls the series of abstract images that result "chimigrammes...
...first there was only the smell of smoke. Robert Bemish, 43, a San Francisco broadcasting executive, opened the door of his eighth-floor room at New Orleans' Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge to investigate, and noticed "light bulbs popping all over the place" from the heat. He was standing facing the motel's swimming pool when a black youth with a rifle jumped out from some bushes, stared at him for a full second, took aim and fired. Shot through his midsection, Bemish fell into the pool. He pretended to be dead, his air-filled trench coat...
...morning of the shootout, a white grocer in New Orleans' black Broadmoor section was also shot and wounded by a .44 magnum slug. The attacker fled on foot, and shortly thereafter a car was stolen five blocks from the grocery store, only to turn up in the motor lodge's garage. Whoever else had been involved with Essex-one cop insisted that he saw a black woman sniper-race clearly played a large role in the killings. At about the same time Bemish was shot, a black chambermaid almost bumped into the sniper on the pool deck...
...price of White Motor stock at last year...