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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...titan of the savings and loan business; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A onetime theatrical pressagent, grade-B screenwriter ("I'm a lot prouder of some of the mortgages I've written"), and scriptwriter for radio's Gangbusters, Lytton used Broadway promotional techniques to build his Los Angeles-based Lytton Financial Corp. into a $700 million business. Overextension and the collapse of the California housing boom started his downfall in the mid-'60s, and creditors moved in to depose him in April 1968. "Money," he once said, "can be merchandised just like girlie shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 11, 1969 | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...York City borough of Queens. "We see here the beginnings of the 1920s in prewar Germany," warns Kahane. "This is a question of Jewish survival-nothing else." The newspaper ad, which Kahane wrote, declares: "Maybe some people and organizations are too nice. Maybe-just maybe -nice people build their own road to Auschwitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Jewish Vigilantes | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

Divorce is common. County Circuit Judge Volie Williams, who has handled 3,000 divorces in the past two years, finds that plaintiff wives of engineers present a strikingly similar recital of marital discord. By their accounts, says the judge, "the husband never wants any family life. He likes to build a stereo set from component parts and then dare anyone in the family to touch it. Every weekend he goes out in his boat by himself and doesn't want his wife or kids to go with him. He never physically abuses his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communities: Life in the Space Age | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...must be carefully defined and neither exaggerated non underrated. The primary incentive of business is return on investment--and the cost constraints inherent in the provision of low and moderate-income housing do not leave much room for profit. What the real estate industry can do is to build housing units, because developers and contractors have done it over and over again, and have expertise at it. The industry also has access to private mortgage money, which is required because there simply is not enough public money to support an adequate rate of construction. To be able to tap that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge's City Manager Speaks on Housing Crisis | 7/3/1969 | See Source »

FIRST, THEY must build more housing for their students and faculty because the available housing simply cannot absorb them, and because the students themselves cannot really be served the housing market they find in Cambridge. When they do enter it, they are forced to accept housing conditions fully as bad as those experienced by other residents. This is equally true of single or married graduate students and younger faculty or staff members, who often live on genuinely moderate incomes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge's City Manager Speaks on Housing Crisis | 7/3/1969 | See Source »

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