Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This arrangement seems slightly surrealistic, but it is cheaper than most available mortgages would be. In effect, the President is paying off the additional land at today's prices, holding it and gambling on a continuation of the upward trend in real estate prices in the San Clemente area. Within the five-year period, the President will sell all but his five acres and house. If his gamble pays off, he will retire the debt on the borrowed money and perhaps even make a profit. Just to whom the President will sell is not known. It could...
...original investment. With his White House salary, and what he saved from the fat years as a corporate attorney in New York, Richard Nixon is reasonably well off. And, of course, all the interest he pays on his holdings is deductible from his personal income taxes. His only real estate problem seems to be that, whenever the Nixons move into a neighborhood, they drive property values up. In the ten months that Nixon has owned the two houses in Key Biscayne, they have both reassessed upward by $52,000-a taxing experience, as every homeowner knows...
...Little real movement is expected in Paris, however, until Tho or another senior official returns with new instructions from Hanoi. Even then, it may be a while before the interim leaders can agree on the wording of those instructions. Nor is a quick shift expected on the battlefields of the South, where last week Communist forces staged their heaviest attacks in almost a month. The Viet Cong and North Viet Nam, however, announced that there would be a three-day ceasefire, perhaps this week, to mark Ho's death. There were indications that the allied forces would tacitly follow suit...
...lost his post as party leader. Giap denounced him for having "executed too many people" and having "resorted to terror." The agrarian purge was not the only instance of the regime's bloody-mindedness. Immediately after independence was declared in 1945, Ho's officials, bent on eliminating all real or potential opposition, wiped out thousands of non-Communist nationalists, members of the middle class, and members of religious sects...
Performer Not Prophet. The real source of disappointment lay in a worshiping youthful expectation incapable of fulfillment. The prophet had brought no cataclysm, no revelation. That was hardly Dylan's fault. He has always been a performer who moved uneasily within his aura. He has never really courted audiences. That quality has helped him outgrow the limitations of his early successes. But it has also alienated some of his fans. There were early Dylan fanatics, for instance, who considered him guilty of betrayal when he first gave up the pure strains of folk music and adopted the electrified...