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Hosts of other favorable housing trends are popping up. One of the biggest surprises is that the inventory of unsold new homes is currently at its lowest level since 1971 (see chart). Says Robert Gough, a housing specialist with the Massachusetts-based economic fore casting firm of Data Resources Inc.: "Given dropping interest rates and shrinking inventories, a growth in housing starts will have to follow." Other bullish signs include a lofty rise in October building permits, which were a full 60% above the depressed level of a year...
...taxpayers' money. When Mollison bought Blue Poles from the American collector Ben Heller for the unprecedented sum of $2 million at 1973 exchange rates, the figure had to be made public. The issue was immediately seized on by the Australian press, whose management was bitterly opposed to Gough Whitlam's Labor government, as a prime emblem of artsy socialist mismanagement. The propaganda value squeezed from this episode certainly helped many Australians accept the virtual coup d'etat by which Whitlam's government was dismissed...
...elderly couple, Ernest (Michael Gough) and Delia (Joan Hickson), plan to celebrate their wedding anniversary at a restaurant. They end up snacking in bed. A thirtyish couple, Malcolm (Derek Newark) and Kate (Susan Littler), are throwing a party, but the guests' coats have scarcely been stacked on the bed when the festivities embarrassingly and ignominiously sputter...
...General of Australia, a country that Charles has loved since his six months there as a student. The post has been a touchy one ever since Governor General Sir John Kerr, in order to break a parliamentary deadlock in 1975, used long dormant powers to sack Conservative Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and call for new elections. Kerr last year resigned, turning the job over to the Australian-born academic Sir Zelman Cowen. But after Cowen has had another four or five years in office, says a source close to Buckingham Palace, the Queen would like to appoint Charles...
Ignorance abounds in the physical sciences as well. Astronomer Douglas Gough points out that the inner structure, composition, and workings of the sun, let alone distant stars, remain a mystery and that even sunspots, which were recorded by the ancient Chinese, still defy understanding. Theoretical Physicist Abdus Salam concedes that science could fail in the search for a basic particle of matter, that probing deeper into the structure of matter may yield ever-more-basic particles...