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His home has been stoned; on occasion, friends have felt it necessary to stand all-night guard, shotguns at the ready. Wirges has been shot at, beaten, and threatened so persistently by anonymous telephone callers that he once sent his wife and four children to live for a while in...
To add to the confusion, builders claim that in some areas, high financing charges and the practice of counting shelters as property improvements (thereby increasing tax assessments) are scaring off potential customers. In Los Angeles, pre-nuclear building codes generally prevent builders from installing septic tanks, which many of them...
The school-finance headache comes from the antiquated local property tax, which provides more than half of all public school revenue (apart from loans and bond issues). In the past 55 years, its relative yield has declined 75% because it is the one tax that the tax-burdened citizen can...
Contradictory. On the long-term side, the FHA recently lowered interest rates on home loans from 5¾% to 5½% The Treasury has begun switching more of its financing into short-term securities: by satisfying the demand for short-term investments, it can thus drive short-term interest rates...
"Pure Defense." In 1944 Jackie was sent off to Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn.-accompanied by Danseuse, her mare. One summer she made the grand tour of Europe with three other girls, a chaperone from Holton-Arms and a drip-dry wardrobe. ("We would spend all night...