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...received at the University of Mississippi, where he was the first known Negro student, was something less than cordial. So it seems strange that James Meredith should want to go back. But after spending six troubled years in New York City, where he lost $20,000 as a landlord, and was sentenced to two days in jail for harassing his tenants, Meredith has abandoned the North to return to Jackson, Miss., where he will campaign to obtain more economic power for blacks. "The South," Meredith announced, "is a more livable place for blacks than any other place in the nation...
...could start anywhere; let's start concretely.The hero is a landlord still living off rents; he does not work. He keeps a huge modern apartment full of luxury items which obsess him more than they divert him. He is imprisoned by conspicuously useless memory-laden objects-his wife's dresses, his own collection of sculpture and painting, the very size of his rooms. These keep him from understanding his life; they keep him thinking about surplus value subjectively and purely in itself, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said in a drunken Marxist moment...
...Sometimes the Courts' cases involve someone owing someone else $10," Weiss said yesterday, "but sometimes they are test cases with broad implications." Last March Weiss led a group of seven tenants into the Boston Small Claims Court against Joseph Hunter, a Boston landlord. Hunter was eventually forced to remit more than $1650 in unreturned security deposits...
Under the Massachusetts Rent Control Act passed last September, Cambridge rents were to have been rolled back to March, 1970 levels. Increases above the roll back level could be granted by Corkery after a hearing showing operating cost increases, tax increases or capital improvements made by the landlord...
Increases are presently being granted under a fixed standard which determines a landlord's fair net operating income by comparing his actual costs and rents to a return equal to eight to ten per cent of the market value of the property as of March...