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Fern Creek, the school the boys attended last year, has a minor drug problem, but its neighborhood is bucolic by comparison. David, who is already one year behind in school, feels he would slip further at Parkland: "It won't help me. I don't see why I should have to go." Agrees Danny: "I like Fern Creek; I don't like Parkland...
...some have risen more than that. In Sharon, Mass., for instance, houses that sold last year for $39,000 carry $46,000 price tags today. Auto sales, though picking up, are still soft. Estimates now are that U.S. car sales, which in 1974 hit 7.4 million units, will slip below 7 million this year for the first time since...
...Dwayne Keyes said there was an "assumption" that Fromme had been part of a conspiracy because of the "close connection of the [Manson] group." In Los Angeles, Deputy District Attorney Stephen Kay said flatly: "I think Charles Manson had a hand in it. It's very easy to slip messages in and out of prison." Indeed, officials at San Quentin prison near San Francisco, where Manson is locked up, acknowledged that the mass murderer had frequently corresponded with Fromme by regular mail. A prison spokesman said that Manson had learned of the act through the prison grapevine shortly after...
...power−and Detroit's sales. So far this year, in fact, sales of domestic cars have been even softer than they were in 1974. Last year U.S. automakers sold 7.4 million cars, down 24% from 1973's record 9.7 million; this year the total may well slip under 7 million for the first time since 1962. Yet imports have been able to expand their normal 15% share of the U.S. market...
...inched forward slightly by noting that "there is a strong feeling in the party that a candidacy by me would not be divisive and that a choice would be good for the party and the nation." While he delays, he is hoping that the President will continue to slip in the polls. Ford and Rocky are both conducting a delicate political operation: they are trying to head off the threat from the right without alienating the moderates and independents they need to win the election. The danger is that if they tilt too much to the right, they...