Word: furor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furor over soaring rents involves only one-third of New York's 2,100,000 privately owned apartments. The rest remain subject to rent control, to which New York (alone among major U.S. cities) has clung since World War II. Landlords of rent-controlled apartments are every bit as unhappy as tenants of uncontrolled units. Squeezed by rising costs for taxes, labor, maintenance and anti-pollution equipment demanded by the city, increasing numbers of owners are simply abandoning structurally sound, though rundown, controlled buildings. By owners' estimates, some 12,000 buildings containing 350,000 apartments have thus been...
Despite the furor over his selection, the Nixon people bravely profess their pleasure with the Maryland Governor. "If anyone visits all 50 states this year," says one, "it will be Agnew. He'll be seeing a lot of the country...
...last year of his life trying without success to topple the government of Bolivia. Ironically, Che has come close to doing in death what he could not achieve in life. Last week the 14-man Cabinet of Bolivia's President René Barrientos resigned in the embarrassed furor following the leak of Che's diary to his old boss, Fidel Castro...
...attorney insisted that the real question was how to deal with juvenile gangs, by force or by conversion. "You should be studying this question, not badgering sincere, dedicated clerics who try only to help their deprived fellow man," said he, but McClellan gaveled him down. Lost in the furor was any realistic evaluation of OEO's attempts to tame the Rangers...
...Town of Wellesley is quiet and nice. But in the past week it has shown a new face, a tense, grim face-the result of a play presented memorial Day in the public high school: But the furor in Wellesley extends far beyond anger over the lines of the play and touches a basic fear felt by the community as a whole since the beginning of the year...