Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cariou is first-rate as the sisters' brother Andrey, who loses control of the household to his adulterous wife. He gives up his dream of becoming a famous university professor, and contents himself with being secretary to his wife's lover on the local county agriculture committee--a post so petty that he has to bolster his pride by berating a subordinate for not addressing him a "Your Honor," and--like Abe Fortas--seek solace in going off by himself to play the violin. Cariou makes him genuine, well-meaning, and pathetic; and I'd swear he really puts...
...petition for rent control in Cambridge has, by official count, more than enough signatures to get onto the City's November 4 ballot...
...total of 5052 voters (about 12 per cent of the City's registered voters) signed the petition, according to the City's official signature count completed last weekend. The petition, sponsored by the Cambridge Rent Control Referendum, needed only 3290 signatures (eight per cent of the voters) to get on the ballot...
...five," as they have come to be termed, have alienated many housing convention members from the council; they feel that a majority of the council is not in favor of any real action on the housing crisis. The view is understandable since, for those who fought for it, rent control is the most real action that can be taken. Yet, given the very mixed consequences of the proposal, it is quite possible to reach the conclusion that rent control would do more harm than good. This, more than the fabled dollars of landlords, was perhaps the difference between four votes...
After the decision on rent control became clear last Monday, several councillors asked the housing convention members to "sit down together with the council" to map out a concrete program on housing. The request may go unanswered, for much, perhaps too much blood has been shed over rent control in recent days...