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...empty room to a party of eight West Indian musicians who were encouraged to hold nightlong parties and raise hell; they did, to such good effect that the seven white tenants moved out within three months and were replaced by swarms of West Indians paying vastly inflated rents. Eighteen months later, Rachman sold the house for five times what he had paid for it, and moved on to further real estate triumphs in the rundown areas of Paddington, Bayswater and Netting Hill...
...afford to take his kids to the ball game as often as he once did." And Milwaukee's John McHale blames it on the weather. "It was 44° here this morning," he said recently, "I was in Chicago yesterday, and it was the coldest day since eighteen-something-or-other...
...heated racial unrest which has troubled the town of Cambridge, Maryland, for the past eighteen months was at last brought to a peaceful close this week. Both the municipal government and the Negro leaders granted concessions to the other side in an effort to reach a workable accord and in so doing exercised an encouraging amount of good sense; the violence has been put aside and the Eastern Shore community is evidently on its way to reshaping its backward civil rights posture...
Over one-half of the summas will be awarded to concentrators in the natural sciences, Kennedy also said. Eighteen and one-half were awarded in the natural sciences, ten and one-half in the humanities, and only 6 in the social sciences, although this area has the largest number of concentrators of the three...
...suggest, in closing, that the distributors remove their "over eighteen" restriction from the film. There is nothing in it that could possibly warp a teen-age mind, and the theatre operators are going to need the extra revenue...