Word: rent
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Heretofore, the educational authorities of the city colleges abused their freedom to disapprove. This fall, Hunter College refused to rent its auditorium to the arch-conservative National Review; Brooklyn college delayed a speech by Mark Lane, a New York State Assemblyman who was indicted in Mississippi for his actions as a Freedom Rider; and Queens College revoked student invitations to Malcolm X, leader of the Black Muslims, and to Benjamin Davis, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party. (The ban on Davis provoked the discredited October 26 ruling...
Meanwhile, Victor D. Oppenheimer, president of Mount Auburn, Inc., said that the organization will have to close permanently unless the Court gives a prompt decision on the licensing charges. The group is already "considerably in arrears" on rent and other bills, Oppenheimer admitted...
...London alone, seven families each day become officially homeless, and the rate is rising. Most often the victims are young couples with several children. Landlords can rent single rooms most profitably to childless tenants, and even for a dingy, three-room basement apartment without private bath or kitchen can usually get far more than a working-class family can afford: up to $20 a week in a country where the average weekly wage is $42. For a London scrap-metal dealer and his pregnant wife, "home" after working hours is a three-ton truck. A common racket for landlords...
Died. Robert Allen Futterman, 33, steely-minded dynamo of the real estate industry who in seven years of 100-hour work weeks rose from a $300-a-month Manhattan rent collector to the presidency of his own corporation, boasting $100 million assets in 27 cities; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Manhattan...
Other recent speech cancellations have also provoked protest. Malcolm X, leader of the Black Muslim movement, was prohibited from speaking on the Queens College campus; Hunter College refused to rent its auditorium to the National Review; and Brooklyn College delayed the speech of State Assemblyman Mark Lane, whose arrest as a Freedom Rider in Mississippi reportedly cast doubts over the propriety of his speaking under college auspices...