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...value: the paper's claimed circulation of 395,000 is up 40,000 from a year ago. Among the curious is John Hay Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, who bought the Tribune in 1958. Fortnight ago, Whitney, until recently an absentee landlord, appointed himself editor in chief and moved in for a closer look. But while Multimillionaire Whitney expresses qualified satisfaction with the paper, he has no intention of letting it become an expensive habit. "We have a five-year plan for the Tribune," says he. "If, at the end of that...
Thailand has no landlord problem, and having never been conquered by Europeans, no bitter memories of colonialism. Some 85% of the farmers own their own small but fertile plots. Young King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 33, whose passion is jazz, not politics, is the great-grandson of King Mongkut of The King and I fame and heir to a throne that dates back 700 years...
...whose major figures are an unpublished poet and a jobless journalist. Slam-bang into his nerveless world crashes a huge, careless taxidermist, a man who is physically powerful and morally indifferent. He moves in on the printer, pays no rent, entertains the town whores, and laughs his unpaid, gentle landlord into inconsequence. Just when the reader is beginning to ask why the mild printer has to take all this, Author Narayan-himself a Hindu, a vegetarian, and a small, mild fellow-shows that the meek have their own kind of strength...
...thrifty, hardworking, enterprising. After he was laid off in mid-1960, he tried to make a living as a freelance patternmaker, leased a small machine shop, for which he agreed to pay 40% of his profits. So far, that has proved to be a poor bargain for the landlord. "I bang on the doors of tool shops all around these parts," says Smith. "All around-Kokomo, New Castle, Elwood, over in Anderson. I've quoted on 15 jobs. I got two little ones-two weeks' work." Smith also puts in 30 hours a week as a commission salesman...
Amos is sure that at least twice he was refused rooms because of his color. In one instance a landlord assured the international Student Association that he had three or four vacant apartments, but denied that any were available when Amos visited the building in person later that day. The Harvard School of Public Health last year studied the condition of graduate apartments. Accommodations were found so inadequate that the school purchased three apartment buildings on Park Drive, and furnished them for occupancy this fall. Currently 141 students, 71 foreigners and 70 Americans, live in the buildings...