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Howard (Buddy) Jacobson, the former race horse trainer who was convicted in April of murdering a rival for the affections of a woman with whom he had formerly lived, escaped yesterday from the Brooklyn House of Detention for Men where he was waiting to be sentenced, the police reported.

Complaints against landlords in New York Clty are sharply on the rise, according to public and private agencies concerned with the problem. The majority of the complaints are about alleged overcharging, but apparently stricter landlord enforcement of rental leases is also prompting inquiries from tenants.

LEBANON, Ohio--The Lebanon Correctional Institution, a large, medium-security state prison for first offenders, sits on a hill like a flattened castle, dominating the countryside for miles around. Inside its brick walls are 2,000 young men who went wrong in Cincinnati or Dayton or Columbus, most of them housed two men to a cell designed for one.

Reggie Jackson is playing virtually one-legged these days but he did not have to strain his aching leg in the closing seconds of the Yankees' 8-6 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays that ended in the 11th inning early this morning.

TRENTON THE monitoring team assigned to the Trenton schools by Dr. Fred G. Burke, the state's Commissioner of Education, to help the troubled system is no longer just helping. It's now giving orders.

AFTER more than five years of litigation, it took the state just 24 hours to issue a check for $3.248 million last Wednesday as a result of acquiring less than half an acre of land for which it now has no use.

THE story of the rise and fall of the Shah of Iran has two morals: one for dramatists and one for statesmen. The one for dramatists grows out of the old story of the king who, through greed, ambition and vanity, manages to undermine his own throne. The one for statesmen is about how a great global ...

Spokesmen for the Carter Administration concede that the recession will be somewhat more severe than they thought. Secretary of the Treasury G. William Miller said last week that the recession appeared "moderate" but that the worst "may be behind us."

PARIS, May 31--Pope John Paul II met privately for 45 minutes today with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and reportedly told the French leader that he endorsed his recent summit meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader.

"I'M not a rink person," explained Denise Claudet, a 25year-old bookkeeper from New Rochelle. "I like to skate outdoors. But everywhere you go, people say roller skates aren't allowed. If I go to a parking lot that's not used during ...

Beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, squeezed like a coal seam between four other states, lies a part of the Old Dominion often overlooked by the traveler--a land rich in natural beauty, history and culture. Its network of ...

The purchase of existing homes in rundown neighborhoods is, in total sales, "still a drop in the national bucket," according to a survey, "U.S. Housing Markets," published by the Advance Mortage Corporation of Detroit, an affiliate of Oppenheimer Company, mortgage bankers.