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Although Holden Green was built for Harvard couples, the existing Federal Rent control law made it impossible to evict tenants as long as they behaved themselves. The result was that students entered the apartments, got their degrees, and still continued to live in the development sometimes for years. During the thirties, when tenants were scarce, the graduating couples were allowed to stay on because the apartments could not be filled any other...
...settlers plan to evict all Kikuyus from a five-mile-wide buffer zone surrounding the 12,000-ft. Aberdare Mountains-the Mau Mau stronghold. By creating a Malaya-style dead zone, patrolled day & night, the planters hope to deprive the Mau Mau of food, weapons and recruits, ultimately starve them into submission. The trouble with eviction is that the settlers themselves depend on the Kikuyus to harvest their crops, dig their wells and cook their food...
Guests of the House. In Beverly Hills, Calif., the Beverly Hills Hotel filed suit against Mr. & Mrs. Sam Genis for $50,000, moved to evict them from their $1,375-a-month suite, charged that the couple
...often the University is forced into a paradoxical situation. After it buys a property, it sometimes finds that it cannot just evict the tenants, even though they may be living in old, run-down houses. The University ran into this problem when it bought 16, 18, 20, and 22 De Wolf Street, a block of ugly tenements behind Dunster House. The rest Harvard collects covers only maintenance costs...
Easter was no holiday for Jasper McKee '51, a Washington, D. C., resident who was driving from New York to College. Just outside of New Haven, an angry bee caused him to stop his car and evict the hitch-hiker...