Word: rent
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...everywhere involved with legislation, from taxes to patents, and world events are influenced by international law, or its lack. Religion is concerned with the moral law, the press with libel, the worlds of show business and sport with contracts. All of modern living is touched by legal questions from rent control to divorce, and even science thinks about the laws that might apply in outer space...
...Smudgy Details. In its investigation, the Commission seemed to dig up every smudgy detail of Ruby's shabby life. On Nov. 21, the Commission says, Ruby "visited with a young lady who was job-hunting in Dallas, paid his rent for his Carousel nightclub premises, conferred about a peace bond he had been obliged to post as a result of a fight with one of his striptease dancers, consulted with an attorney about problems he was having with federal tax authorities [who said he owed the U.S. $40,000], distributed membership cards for the Carousel Club, talked with Dallas County...
Gibraltar's main - and almost only -street is a delightful omnium-gatherum of the civilizations that have passed its way since Hercules rent Europe from Africa and made the Rock one of his Pillars. On the soft Mediterranean air, jasmine and mimosa mingle with the aroma of frying pescado and chips; from back alleys float shreds of flamenco music, tourist twist and the dogged strains of Methodist choir practice (Rock of Ages is a Gibraltarian favorite). Helmeted native bobbies impartially ogle vacationing English shopgirls, off-duty African belly dancers, and the Midwestern matrons among the 240,000 visitors...
...campaign proposals are equally sanguine: "Guarantee of a job or a decent income. $2 minimum wage for all workers. Legalization of rent strikes. Free college education to needy children. Free medical care for all citizens regardless of income...
Interviews conducted last spring indicate that many Harvard Negroes are "black nationalists." They are concerned with the development of racial pride and of a self-conscious cultural tradition among Negroes the world over--often more than with the integration of Mississippi's public schools or the success of a rent strike in Chicago. Few advocate physical separation from white society, as do the Black Muslims, but few find the idea totally ridiculous. And many will tell you that the former Muslim, Malcolm X, is "a fine, brilliant...