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Like most Massachusetts cities, Somerville has established no qualification standards for tax assessors, and assessors are elected--often on the basis of political connections--rather than appointed because of professional competence. Even John Howe says he would like to have assessors receive more training than their one-week crash course in real estate at the University of Massachusetts...
Nervousness about the weak dollar and inflation conspired to bring a startling break in stock prices. The Dow Jones industrial average last week tumbled more than 59 points, to 838, its worst one-week loss in history. Indeed, currency and stock markets seem to be getting locked into a vicious circle. When a plunge in the dollar causes stock prices to drop, foreign moneymen read the stock slide as an indication that Americans are losing faith in their own economy, and they unload still more dollars...
Founded in 1970, the Birch camps take in some 1,100 youths between the ages of 14 and 22 every summer. The one-week sessions involve rigorous instruction in right-wing doctrine. Twenty lectures on "the rudiments of Americanism" are devoted to such themes as the dangers of gun control, Big Government and the Equal Rights Amendment. "The forces that work for total government" constitute the real enemy, campers are taught...
...things, to the temptation of Big Bucks. There is a splendidly absurd contract-signing orgy, involving some expensive and schizophrenic kidding of the rock world's overdose of money, and soon Frampton has forgotten all about Strawberry Fields (Sandy Farina), the sappily beautiful girl back home. "A difficult one-week rise from obscurity to stardom," as one of the film's captions puts it, follows...
Reaching the North Pole on May 1, he remained for two days and was then airlifted back to Ellesmere Island. Following a one-week respite, he is scheduled to leave on yet another pioneering dog-sledge journey that will take him 1,660 miles on a north-south trek through the icy interior of Greenland...