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Allbritton has been at the center of a debate about editorial integrity since buying the Trenton Times last year from the Washington Post Co. On his first day he fired 24 of the 80 editorial employees. In February, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the Trenton Times "agreed to publish a news story in exchange for a $400 advertisement" from an auto-parts company. Less than a week later, the Times fired Reporter John Chester for disobeying orders to process a local department store's press release, word for word, as a news story. Allbritton later apologized in an editorial...
...highest rate since the Great Depression. Perhaps the hardest hit of all industries is housing. Other Government figures released last week showed that in February, sales of new single-family houses dropped by 11.8% to the second lowest monthly rate in almost two decades. Says Realtor Marie Tighue of Trenton, N.J.: "It's a day-to-day battle to make sales." She recalls the bargaining for one house: "It was a $78,000 home with a $50,000 down payment and the rest in loans. The original mortgage was at 8.5%, but the bank said it wouldn...
...this Archie Bunker architecture, as it might be called, has been documented in a 31-panel photographic exhibition titled "Transformed Houses." Currently at Baltimore's Peale Museum, it will tour some 15 cities, including Los Angeles, Bethlehem, Pa., and Trenton, N.J., through 1984. Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, it was photographed by Camilo Vergara, 37, a conservation specialist for the New Jersey department of energy, who first noticed Bunker architecture when he worked in blue-collar Jersey City in 1976-77. I'm not interested in creating artistic pictures. "I did want to document this...
...funeral ceremonies the three Presidents had to share the sun with other luminaries. Linowitz, trying to avoid being pushed into the ribs of a President, stepped onto the royal shoes of Britain's Prince Charles. He marveled at what a boy from Trenton, N.J., was doing there...
...also suffering from a drought. In the Northeast, reservoirs are at 15-year lows, some less than one-third full. With only a 100-day supply of water, New York City officials are weighing mandatory restrictions. The Governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware met in Trenton last week to declare a drought emergency, banning nonessential water...