Word: landlordism
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...profoundly disillusioned when we find that we can't get a room because of our color. The millions of dollars which Americans spend on propaganda in Africa are wasted when their claims are refuted by an African's son's story of his experience with an American landlord...
...suite of rooms on Massachuetts Avenue. Freeman was shocked, therefore, to encounter discrimination this winter when he sought a room for a Liberian friend. For two days Freeman and friend sought shelter at houses which sported room-for-rent signs. At each they were turned down; at each the landlord explained that the room had been leaned that morning or the night before. All along Beacon Street and Newbury Street the students hunted for a room until finally, after almost two days of rejection, Freeman realized that the vacant rooms were occupied one after another not by coincidence...
...lists are frequently ineffective. Mr. Anthony Amos, a Ghanian student at MIT, and his wife spent four days searching for suitable accommodations. They spent from 7 a.m. to 12 midnight each day tracking down Harvard and MIT lists; landlords who had no vacancies, charged too much, or had only dingy rooms to offer, Amos recalled "after giving up on the housing lists, we tried calling from newspaper advertisements and visited real estate agents. Finally, on the fourth day we found our present apartment--the walls were falling apart, the floor was black with dust, the room was unfurnished...
...result was a bad crop two years in a row, with grain production in 1959 and 1960 running at about 190 million tons, v. a 1960 goal of 297 million. As a cornerstone of the plan for 1961, Peking called for a purge of what it called "landlord and bourgeois elements" who "have not yet been sufficiently remolded." Tacitly conceding that private incentives were necessary, China's planners fell back on what they call the "socialist society's principles of more income for more work." Commune workers would be allowed to raise private pigs and vegetables, were granted...
...Tree (by Lawrence Roman) is the sort of light sex comedy that a critic can't come down on too heavily. One wrinkle to its romance is that, though boy wants to marry, girl thinks they should first live together platonically. The other wrinkle is Hogan, the landlord across the hall, a bachelor with a knack for getting into people's hair and ladies' bedrooms. Out of this new-style ménage á troïs come three acts of calculated on-the-brinkmanship and technically innocent shenanigans...