Word: worth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President favors. Nixon's third house, in Whittier, Calif., where his mother once lived, is a potential profitmaker. The house and lot are valued at $75,000-the mortgage is for $54,400 -but the area has just been rezoned for commercial use, which should enhance its worth considerably...
...considers partisan abuse of the poverty program, Governor Louie B. Nunn has vetoed a $177,000 Office of Economic Opportunity grant to the Middle Kentucky River Area Development Council (MKRADC). The organization, headquartered in Jackson and run by Mrs. Howell, is responsible for administering sorely needed poverty projects worth $2,000,000 a year in Breathitt and three neighboring counties. Two-thirds of the region's families have incomes of less than $3,000 a year...
...arms were scarred from cigarette burns. Before Frishman left Hanoi, Stratton told him not to worry about telling the truth. "He said that if he gets tortured some more, at least he'll know why he's getting it, and he will feel that it will be worth the sacrifice...
Smuggled Remembrances. This week Speer's memoirs, after three years of polishing and editing, will be published. British Historian H. R. Trevor-Roper once said that Speer's would be the only Nazi memoirs worth reading, since he was the brightest of the group and the only man at Nurnberg who felt any sense of guilt. "I wrote this book primarily for the younger generation," Speer told TIME Correspondent Peter Range. "I intended it not only to portray the past but to warn about the future." Since his own six children would be affected by his renewed notoriety...
...stations currently operating in the U.S. In fact, the only thing approaching pay television is closed-circuit presentations of heavyweight-championship boxing matches and the Indianapolis 500 auto race, both of which are shown in movie houses for $5 to $10 a seat. (Last May, one Fort Worth theater marquee inadvertently carried two contradictory promotions: SAVE FREE TV and INDY 500 RACE CLOSED CIRCUIT TV.) The NATO contention that pay-TV would rob the poor is similarly leaky. With subscription TV, a whole family could see a film for $1.50 or so, far less than the price of admissions, baby...