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Blast from HUD. Though the bonds would have to be guaranteed by the Government, Percy also provides for an investment from the owner. He calls it a "sweat equity" in which prospective homeowners can throw in their own labor to reduce their monthly mortgage payments. Under the Percy Plan, if a homeowner should rise above a middle-income level of $6,000 a year, he would subsequently contribute a commensurately greater portion of his monthly mortgage payment to the federation's revolving fund...
Saudek's solution is the development of public, or educational, television, which he hopes could "throw Gresham's law into reverse" with the good programs driving the bad programs...
...Love, Not War. Many left-wing Americans-including Senior Socialist Norman Thomas-refused to throw in with King, Carmichael & Co. Because the pitch of their protest made it seem that Hanoi was innocent of any aggressive role in the war, even the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy refused to take part, though SANE Co-Chairman Dr. Benjamin Spock spoke at the New York demonstration...
...might have done even better if he hadn't spread himself so thin. Besides the shotput, Matson was asked to compete in the discus throw, an event he does not much like. It was probably not entirely accidental that he forgot to bring his discus with him to the meet; his wife discovered it lying on the floor of the family car and rushed it out to the field. Randy resignedly trudged over to the throwing ring, wound up and sailed the discus 213 ft. 9½ in. - 3 ft. 3½ in. farther than any American had ever...
...Throw Hannibal on the scales, how many pounds...