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...stories were collected in 1965 and 1966 in a series of interviews by Susan Sheehan, a New Yorker writer and the wife of Neil Sheehan, who was a New York Times correspondent in Saigon. In addition to this Vietnamese trio, seven other people are presented in the book: a landlord, a Montagnard, an orphan, a Buddhist monk, a Viet Cong, a South Vietnamese soldier, a politician...
Since last Thursday, he said, police have visited the store four times, bringing a fire inspector with them once. The fire inspector pointed out the possibility of a number of violations, but Levy said yesterday that some of these were the landlord's responsibility, not the store's. The police, he said, also complained about the positioning of his signs. And finally yesterday, he said, they told him the store might be stopped from selling second hand surplus clothing until it gets a license...
Ever since Landlord Charles de Gaulle evicted NATO from France, General Lyman Lemnitzer, 67, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, has been househunting in the neighborhood of the new SHAPE headquarters now abuilding in Belgium. At last he settled on the Chateau Gendebien near the town of Mons. The chateau sits in a pleasant 30-acre parkland populated by pheasants and wild rabbits. Unfortunately, the house is pretty much in a state of nature, too. No one has lived there since 1959; five years ago, three vandals broke in and tore the place apart, smashing windows and yanking down chandeliers...
...Upper Darby, Pa., James Argo, a blind broom peddler, entered an office building to hawk his wares for the 40th time in ten years. This time, workmen had removed the floor. Argo plunged 18 feet, suffered serious injuries, and won a jury verdict of $27,500. Rejecting the landlord's appeal, the Pennsylvania court ruled that henceforth landlords must foresee potential dangers to the state's 15,000 blind citizens. Argo, held the court, was entitled to the simplest imaginable safeguard: "The defendants could have locked the door...
...white would not be as effective as a Negro." On the other hand, Mrs. Anne Briggs, a white staff worker at the American Friends Service Committee, said that she was often able to work better with the "White System" than Negroes. "When you're dealing with a white landlord, he's more apt to give you a sympathetic hearing if you're white. I never heard or had it intimated to me that because I am white my work is neither wanted nor appreciated here...