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...Government is sharply increasing its mortgage aid, mostly to people in the lower-middle-income brackets. Through the Federal Housing Administration, families with incomes from $4,000 to $8,000 can obtain a mortgage on which the Government subsidizes up to 7½% of the 8½% interest rate for the 30-year life of the loan. The Government pays the subsidies to private lenders, which extend the loans. For one recently completed group of $17,500 town houses in Pittsburgh, the buyers (mostly blacks) will pay only $97 a month for interest and amortization on their mortgages; the taxpayers...
...detractors, notably U.S. military brass, have called him dishonest, dangerous, anti-American and even a card-carrying Communist. But admiring junior officers asked for his autograph, and Congressmen visiting Viet Nam sought him out to obtain his views on the war. Associated Press Correspondent Peter Arnett, in fact, is one of the most energetic and resourceful reporters ever to cover Indochina...
...Although these actions were taken by the Council as an immediate response to the Saturday night disruption, they are not the only steps which the City is contemplating to prevent such disturbances. Still under consideration by the Council is an ordinance to require organizers of parades and demonstrations to obtain permits 48 hours in advance...
Somehow, though, Frenkil's magic has misfired. Disturbed by reports of his attempts to obtain Government approval of an additional $5,000,000 in garage construction costs, a federal grand jury in Baltimore has spent the past year looking into the contractor's efforts to influence officials on his behalf. Its time has been well spent. Although thwarted in its attempts to indict Frenkil, 63, the grand jury two weeks ago scored a technical knockout in its fight against him and his friends. A judge released a summary of the grand jury's findings. The report named...
...past, hospital authorities would have had to negotiate with the patient's next of kin to obtain organs for transplant, and the organs might have deteriorated and become unusable before permission was obtained. There was no such delay at the Utah hospital. Informed by the patient's wife about the donor card, surgeons were able to operate on him as soon as he was pronounced legally dead.* They removed both kidneys for transplant and both eyes for cornea grafts. Within a few hours, one of each was used for transplants in other patients...