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...Help. The more lavish retirement centers will probably never be within the reach of most people who retire. But in recent years, the U.S. has slowly gotten around to helping with the housing of what the politicians like to call "our senior citizens." In 1956 Congress passed a law making public housing funds available to housing projects for the elderly. Subsequent laws and amendments authorized direct loans for private, nonprofit housing of old people-sponsored by church groups, labor unions, individuals, etc.-at extremely liberal rates (interest as low as 3⅛% on mortgages running as long as 50 years...
HAROLDS CLUB OR BUST! read signs plastered all over the U.S. West, luring millions of Americans to the biggest gambling joint in Reno. So profitable was the lavish emporium of slot machines, roulette, and blackjack tables that the original outlay of $600 by its owners, a thrifty family of Vermonters named Smith, paid off $16,675,000 when they sold last week to a Manhattan syndicate. Still spinning the club's wheel of chance as manager: Harold S. Smith, son of the founder and author of an autobiography aptly titled I Want to Quit Winners...
...Western standards, Oxy is a venerable institution of learning. It was founded 75 years ago by Los Angeles' Presbyterian ministers, who gave it a lavish land-grant endowment, and grandly called it "Occidental University." After land values collapsed and enrollment plunged to twelve, Oxy became a "college." It survived a disastrous fire, and by 1905, the year when a poetic 18-year-old named Robinson Jeffers graduated, Oxy was solvent enough to dream of becoming "the Princeton of the West...
...headed deeper into the mystery. El Paso U.S. District Court Judge Robert Ewing Thomason at week's end listened to eight minutes of legal wrangling, swiftly decided that Billie Sol Estes was obviously bankrupt. He ordered foreclosure notices tacked up on everything Billie Sol owns except for the lavish Estes home in Pecos. That same day Billie Sol himself sailed into court, serenely pleaded innocent to a multimillion-dollar federal fraud charge; moments later, his three co-defendants admitted their guilt...
...simplest true things." No Boys. Charles Dodgson found many ways to truth. He was absorbed in science, photography, medicine, the theater. He concocted puzzles, invented gadgets and games. Most of all, the gentle, fussy bachelor sought truth and solace with dozens of small girls on whom he could lavish affection without the embarrassment of a mature emotional relationship. "Boys," said he, "are not in my line; I think they are a mistake." Though some critics have pictured Dodgson's little girl friends as 19th century Lolitas. he was an unfailingly considerate and honest man, whose moral standards were...