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...good chance of being accepted at a university - if he can pass his exams and shows a "good attitude." The Ts'aos' combined monthly income is about $117. They pay $2.40 a month, including electricity for four bulbs, for a pleasant, three-room apartment in an eight-year-old block of flats for factory workers. It has no kitchen (they eat in can teens), but the Ts'aos have cookouts on their balcony. They have no running water and share a toilet with several other families. The Ts'aos probably would not be encouraged to have...
...began calling himself Immanuel David and became the leader of a religious cult consisting of about 20 friends, his Swedish-born wife Rachel and their seven children. Eighteen months ago, the family moved from Duchesne, Utah, to Salt Lake City, where they eventually settled in a $95-a-day, three-room suite at the International Dunes Hotel. They kept to themselves, eating their meals-sometimes ordered from an expensive French restaurant-in their suite and paying their bills in cash. The source of the money was a mystery. The father once spoke vaguely to a hotel clerk of owning silver...
After a recess, with the Americans taking a long lunch in Vance's three-room suite in the Intercontinental Hotel and Gromyko taking a nap in the Soviet mission building, the SALT talks reconvened for Gromyko's three-hour response. Said one American participant: "Listening to Gromyko for an hour is like listening to anyone else for three." Said another: "The meetings [on Wednesday] weren't negative. But the end game gets very complicated when there is not much to finish. There's very little room to maneuver...
...concern was a group of married students up in arms over proposed renovations for Holden Green, a housing community for about 100 families which Harvard has operated for 50 years. The married students' tenants union was protesting the University's plan because they were happy with their two- and three-room apartments the way they were. Renovations only meant rent increases and eviction notices. The conflict between the University and the residents, which a week later resulted in a tenants' victory and a scaled-down renovation plan, leaving out the luxury improvements, started Wyatt thinking that there must be some...
...audience has an objection to Dolly's new musical style, it is not detectable in the heavy bursts of cheers. Nonetheless, her reach for the show-business sky is a considerable gamble. Country fans are music's most loyal, especially to a singer who comes from a three-room shack in Tennessee, as Dolly does. But their tastes and preferences are not lightly ignored. Dolly knows that and says imploringly, "I don't want to leave the country. I want to take the country with me." Her voice has always been a high, accurate chirp that...