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...State Legislature in June passed a nine-month extension of a current "local-option" rent control law, making the expiration date of the law January 1, 1976, instead of April 1975. The action drew the criticism of local tenant groups Hard Times and the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee and members of the state Rent Control Task Force, a coalition of tenant groups in Massachusetts...
...proposed nine-month extension, to which the House gave preliminary approval without debate, has won support from tenants and opposition from landlords throughout the state...
...year later he made a real name for himself-California 845200. This time he was in San Quentin on a two-year, nine-month rap for attempting to hold up a bar in his home town, Bakersfield. As cocky and uncontrollable as they come, he steamed up some home brew under the guards' noses-and got caught. As his 21st birthday rolled around, he found himself in solitary confinement with only pajama bottoms, a Bible and a blanket on a cement floor to call his own. At long last he was convinced that something was wrong with...
Last October, emerging from an eight-year, self-imposed exile-she had got into some bad singing habits and the voice was threadbare-Callas embarked on a nine-month international concert tour, given with her old friend, Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano...
...other times, the ability of Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, Standard Oil of Indiana, Shell and Standard Oil of California to ring up nine-month 1973 profits that averaged 46% above 1972's comparable period would have brought on considerable praise. But, at a time of oil shortages and sharply rising prices, the great increases fed suspicions on Capitol Hill that the oilmen were using the scarcity as an excuse for jacking up prices and making extortionate profits. Charged Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff: "While the consumer is suffering, the industry seems to be receiving a bonanza...