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Financing a new home has now become so complex that the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry and a local builder, United Development Co., have installed the "Home-Finance Answerline." A confused home buyer in the Chicago area can phone, and a mortgage expert will demystify the latest wrinkle in local real estate lending. Since the hot line was installed a year ago, there have been 10,000 calls...
...over the Midwest, including Chicago and St. Louis. With its low operating costs and an endowment of $12 million, Blackburn offers substantial financial aid to more than 80% of its students. These days, in fact, the work program is often used not merely for economy but as a character builder and educational aid. Says History Professor John Forbes: "There is a tremendous experience of being responsible." Adds a school administrator: "If one student throws paper on the ground, the next student will say, 'Hey, I'm the one who is going to have to pick that...
...that its watchdog reporting has often served the public well. But a public that has grown cynical about all institutions wants no element of society exempt from criticism or, as the Post did when Washington officials questioned whether "Jimmy" existed, complacently defending what cannot be defended. The press, builder and destroyer of the reputations of others, has its own reputation to look after...
Anderson insisted that Rowland, who paid $14 million in stock for the Observer, would maintain its "high standards." Others are not so sure. Though Rowland publishes papers in Scotland, he is primarily a corporate empire builder. He has expanded Lonrho, originally a small African mining and land company, into a multifaceted colossus, typically by buying shares in target companies, then joining the board of directors and fighting other members for control. He is now embroiled in such a battle for the House of Fraser, which owns London's Harrods and 109 other department stores...
Completed plans for the development of the land behind the Kennedy School of Government into the largest business complex in the Square will be submitted to the Cambridge Planning Board today, a spokesman for the builder said yesterday...