Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief of operations for a U.S. oil company was dismayed to find the plumbing so erratic in his villa on Rome's Via Appia Antica that for a time he stocked bottled water for guests to wash in. When William Wyman, vice president of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, rented an apartment in Düsseldorf, he and his wife discovered that the rent was only the beginning of their housing costs. "Not only did we have no appliances, but we had to buy the kitchen sink," says Mrs. Wyman...
Needless to say, this choice has not been accepted meekly by many of the older residents. Since a survey in the summer of 1968 by the local antipoverty agency showed that 57 percent of the 2000 elderly residents contracted paid over half their income for rent the "housing crisis" has become a prime issue in local politics...
...Progressive Labor wing of SDS is turning away from on-campus, student-oriented issues like ROTC and coming to the aid, instead, of oppressed minority groups in the surrounding community. At Michigan, Berkeley and Wisconsin, other radical students and teaching assistants are organizing rent strikes over what they consider to be substandard and overpriced off-campus housing. Efforts such as these could wash back on the universities themselves...
...charter establishing the free city of Loches. As a result of Versailles banquets, Louis XIV's stomach was found at his death to be twice normal size. The French Foreign Ministry spends $4,000,000 annually in secret funds, allegedly on payoffs. President Georges Pompidou pays rent on his He Saint-Louis apartment to the Rothschilds, who bought it for him when he lacked the cash. Sometimes a colorful morsel proves slippery-those famous chestnuts that, according to the author, canopy Cours Mirabeau in Aixen-Provence are plane trees...
Blessed Rhythm. Transamerica is one of the country's fastest-growing conglomerates. Its holdings include such diverse companies as United Artists, Trans-International Airlines and Budget Rent-a-Car. It needs a new building where it can consolidate all its operations and provide room for anticipated expansion. The location chosen-just across the street from its beautifully restored turn-of-the-century headquarters building and right at the edge of San Francisco's financial district-is most convenient to the company's operations. But many San Franciscans, including city planners and just plain residents, strongly oppose...