Word: bille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Black Rock. Bill Veeck, baseball and horse racing impresario, has lost the first round of his fight to bring major league horse racing to the Boston area in the fall...
...Bill Veeck signed a midget to play major league baseball. He gave a yacht to one of the outstanding pitchers on his team. This spring various lucky bettors received prizes at Suffolk Downs--from a case of champagne to a steer. It is unfortunate that a man of such rare promotional genius should be fettered by local politics. In the end Veeck's way will bring more money to the state coffers than anyone else's way, and that is what the state is after anyway...
...showdown in every sense of the word. Scuffles erupted in the council corridors between opponents and supporters of rent control. Women wept. Men cursed. Some women cursed. When the council, for the second time, voted down the convention's bill, for its supporters it was as if the guys in the black hats had shotgunned the guys in the white hats and had then ridden off into the sunset...
...have been looking for a solution or, perhaps more accurately, a panacea. Rent control on its face appeared to offer it: an insurance that one could stay the rest of one's days in the familial apartment, free from worries about rent increases. No matter that a rent control bill, any rent control bill, can't provide complete protection against rent raises, that it won't stop, the Inner Belt, or that it may even be impossible for Cambridge to pass a rent control ordinance without a specific enabling act from the state legislature--rent control seemed to offer...
Though the housing convention supporters regarded the defeat of their bill as a tragedy, the real tragedy of the Cambridge housing crisis may be only beginning. The next few months may well be ones of lost opportunities for Cambridge; chances to alleviate the housing crisis are likely to slip away for lack of political push behind them. If the past year's agitation has done nothing else, it has at least created an awareness on the part of the City government and other institutions, primarily the universities, that some action is required on housing...