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Listening to the WHRB broadcast I was wondering why Mr. von Stade was complaining about being thrown out of an office building while Harvard was going to evict people from their homes, until he said something about how it was wrong to lay a hand on an official of Harvard University. Then I understood, because the people who run Harvard are elitist, and think that since they are from the social class which enables them to know more about Celtic Literature or kidney transplants they also know better than working class people what is better for the latter. Do they...
Tenant groups admit that control does not solve the housing problem. CTOC holds that the solution to housing problems is the abolition of private property. CTOC spokesmen argue that control lowers rents for some tenants, and makes it harder for landlords to evict residents. Controls are also useful, according to CTOC, as a catalyst in tenant organization for more basic reform...
...then, do tenants and their organizations fight for rent control? Why do landlords fight against it? The actual demands of the tenants are for decent housing at rents we can afford to pay, and security against the landlords' power to evict. The actual demands of landlords are for cheap housing at whatever rents the market will bear, and complete control over who lives in their properties and who doesn...
...count out, as his landlords have learned. It seems that the Inch Corp., a real-estate holding company, bought the building that houses Jack Dempsey's restaurant, a Broadway landmark for tourists and the prizefight crowd, in 1967. Since then, Inch has tried to evict Jack on the grounds that his lease is no longer valid. Taking him to court in June 1973, Inch was outpointed when Dempsey won the ruling. Bouncing back, Inch sued again in December. Last week a judge again gave Dempsey the decision. Even as Jack savored a victory lemonade, among pictures of past triumphs...
...Watergate's many side effects has been to evict from the public's attention the figure of the beleaguered reporter languishing in jail for refusing to name his news sources. The investigative reporter triumphant has replaced him and the controversy over disclosing confidential information has shifted from newsmen's notebooks to the Oval Office tapes. But this triumph is illusory. Across the country, reporters, editors and publishers still face a variety of judicial and legislative attacks that threaten basic press freedom...