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There is a cost in politicizing wage-price decisions as we have done. Instead of getting mad at their landlord when their rent goes up, people now get mad at the President. Somehow the Government has put itself in a position of saying, "We are going to protect you." There is a feeling that Uncle Sam is standing there making sure the pie is going to be sliced properly...
...past, and that in this way events and passions recur and prevail through time, is the key to a similar story, Juan Murana. The frail and senile widow of a famed bandit resurrects her "husband", in the form of his knife, to wreak vengence on an unjust landlord...
...blocks away, on Boylston St., another high-rise structure appears imminent. Soil engineers, contracted by Cambridge landlord Max Wasserman, are testing the peat and clay subsoil to determine what size structure the ground can economically support. The land is zoned both for office space and housing; given the relative surplus of office space in the Boston area, the choice will probably be housing...
...neighbors were incredulous, for McCoy hardly seemed the hijacker type. A quiet family man, father of two and devout Mormon, McCoy had taught Sunday school until last March. "All he ever talked about was sin," recalled one of his students. "He's a fine man," insisted his landlord. A classmate at Brigham Young University, where McCoy was a senior majoring in law enforcement, called him "an organized-crime freak" who "wanted to make his dent on the world by busting crime syndicates." His mother was mystified. "He's been very devoted to his church." Sobbed his wife...
McKissick having had his say, the chairman of the panel, Rep. Parren J. Mitchell (D-Md.) entertained additional comments from the floor. A woman from Boston making reference to local landlord Maurice Gordon, called on the Black Caucus to introduce legislation that would make landlords responsible for all damage done by fire when the landlord had been warned of building code violations. Mitchell explained to the woman that it would be very difficult to pass a federal law concerning violations of local building codes. Instead he suggested that any black person, anywhere in the country, who had a particular grievance...