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...land. The Shah himself, as the nation's biggest single landowner (2,500,000 acres), has shown the way by distributing his vast farm properties to the peasants of about 300 of his villages. But the thousand families are cool to land reform. Even worse, landlords seldom reinvest their profits in upgrading the soil. Tenants, who can usually be dispossessed at will with no compensation for any improvements they have made, are understandably reluctant to make any. The Shah has struck hard at one landlord privilege by ordering an end to the "gifts" of cattle and food traditionally taken...
...hope to include a pledge in the letter, which would have to be signed by each landlord," Sarbanes continued. "They would have to promise not to discriminate. Of course, we can't guarantee that some people won't break their pledges. But if they do, we could report them to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination...
...landlords who apply for listing at the PBH housing agency would receive a copy of the letter composed by Sarbanes. No landlord who discriminates on grounds of race, color, or religion will be considered for listing...
...Cesare's estate, a succulent teenage virgin named Marietta is fighting off the panting assault of Tonio, her brother-in-law. Most men want Marietta on sight, and no small part of the town's everlasting gossip is devoted to estimating the chances of the likeliest males. Landlord Don Cesare himself, now 74, is still virile and, by what seemed to him natural right, he has always taken the women of his workers...
...understanding that those names which appeared on the Phillips Brooks Housing List were of landlords and superintendents who did not discriminate, so I was somewhat surprised and dismayed to discover the large degree of discrimination which does exist. I reported this fact to the woman who is in charge of Harvard housing, who informed me that nothing could be done unless the Negroes themselves objected. My main concern is, if this be the case, and a Negro couple were to track down the apartments themselves, a landlord would only have to see them to say that he was sorry...