Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rent control has never been so much at the fore of public discussion as it is now. The reasons are simple. The state-wide enabling act that allowed rent control to come into being in the first place was due to expire at midnight, December 31, 1975. But intense lobbying by tenants and public officials during the last few days of the legislature's session was sufficient to get that body to extend the law for ninety days, until March 31. During the first round of the fight over rent control, two easily distinguished sides should have lined...
...gone off with his date and most of the students are gathering up their notebooks and leaving. Silence pervades the room now. Only the light tapping of fingers on the terminal keys and the hum of a fan can be heard. There are five people still working at midnight, three of them are undergrads. A student sits at the center table screwing up his face and dragging his hand through his hair repeatedly while figuring out a problem in his notebook. A woman jiggles her foot, causing her stool to squeak in rhythm...
...hand-holding couple searching for a bathroom. There is a light on in the director's office where a man sits with his coat on, tapping away at a computer terminal. In the cafeteria a radio speaker has been playing classical music all night to an empty room. At midnight the music yields to a recording of two comedians performing live. They're telling jokes and singing folk songs in a thick Yiddish accent. Applause and laughter echo from the radio into the darkness...
...nightcap slot at the IAB--from 10:30 p.m. to midnight--is the only gym time available for the club, which will play several local prep schools this spring. It will also enter intercollegiate competition next fall, Jackie Schlenger, a founder of the club, said Tuesday...
...Francisco area. A similar card was found on William Harris when he was arrested. Browning argued that the Harrises would never have given Patty such secrets unless they trusted her. The code was dismissed by Associate Defense Counsel Albert Johnson as "the kind that would be used by Captain Midnight," but it took Furgerson two weeks to crack...