Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tterdämmerung. A committee has been lobbying to prevent the building from being demolished to make way for an office skyscraper. Trouble is, the Met itself doesn't share their concern. The company, now housed in Lincoln Center, stands to lose $500,000 per annum in rent on the proposed office building; worse yet, the Met would have to pay a pretty penny just to keep its old home in repair. Taking all that into account, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, 78, reported con brio in the U.S. House of Representatives: "By saving the building, they may destroy opera...
Soul & Heels. When Miller's drama was first performed in 1949, the public pronounced it pretty strong stuff. But the jet age and the Great Society have intervened, and the traveling salesman may some day go the way of rent control and the propeller-driven plane. Many viewers who tuned in to CBS's Xerox special were just curious to see whether the play had gone out of style since its premi...
Among other charges of inefficiency and influence, G.O.P. critics pointed out that the Kanawha Hotel in Charleston, W. Va., which the Job Corps converted into a women's center for $187,400, plus $90,000 a year in rent, has chiefly benefited a prominent local Democrat named Angus Peyton, who held a sizable interest in the property. To the girls, the hotel became "Peyton's Place," and before long there were charges that some of them were living down to the name by running a prostitution racket. The charges were never proved and were eventually dropped...
While the bill empowers federal courts to force owners to sell or rent to Negroes, the Attorney General predicted widespread compliance comparable to that achieved under the public accommodations section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He conceded that the Administration would not object to a "Mrs. Murphy clause"* exempting owners occupying small houses from any compulsion to rent to Negroes. Katzenbach emphasized nonetheless: "The ending of compulsory residential segregation has become a national necessity. Law must lead and law must protect in this vital area." Congress, he suggested, must now "address itself to the vindication of what...
...measure of their success, Boston College recently opened a permanent Center for the Study of Franchise Distribution. It is being underwritten by 200 firms, including Lapin's Pancake Houses, Hertz Rent-A-Car, Carvel ice cream, Mister Donut of America, Inc., Western Auto, Midas Mufflers and Chicago's A to Z Rental, which rents everything for the home from axes to zaxes (a special cutter for roofing tiles...