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Despite all these problems, the new town concept is not dead. Several privately financed new communities-notably Columbia, Md., Reston, Va., and Irvine, Calif.-are profitable and growing. Even HUD does not label its program a total failure. The agency will try to sell off or transfer financing of seven of the 13 federally backed towns and dissolve the corporation that oversees the project, but it will continue to spend money on the six other communities that HUD planners think might survive. Besides, a 1976 National Science Foundation study of 17 new towns, HUD-backed and otherwise, shows that most...
...atmosphere for an amicable settlement was further soured when N & W raised the possibility of sabotage in the derailment of 55 of its coal cars in Bluefield, W. Va...
Although the number of veterans with symptoms paralleling lab results is increasing, the Army and the Veterans' Administration (VA refuse to accept responsibility for the health problems of the veterans and their children. The V.A., which has received over 500 dioxin inquiries, still maintains that no one has proved cancer originated in Vietnam or that a male veteran exposed to Agent Orange could transfer genetic abnormalities to his child...
...Reston, Va...
That would once have been a problem. But now the Miss America Pageant, Inc., officially discourages a va-va-va-voom image. The long strut past the judges in abbreviated beach costume is primly referred to as "swimsuit." But it still counts for one-sixth of the total points in the contest. And Christine will still have to put on a highly structured coral-hued number and parade in high heels before a fully clothed audience and a panel of judges. "I always said I'd never do it," she admits, "but it's really no big deal...