Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work in her purse. The real and the unreal merge, and soon her human victims appear. The first is a suitor (John Fraser) whose conventional acts of gallantry lead to a gruesome end. Later an indignant landlord (played with mordant, bumbling humor by Patrick Wymark) comes to collect his rent and lingers to try his luck. Right up to the grisly climax, the audience seldom wonders what will happen, but endures agonies as to how and when...
...calls for a "massive public works program," replacement "of all slums with low rent public housing," and a "30 hour week with no loss in pay to provide jobs...
...first beneficiaries of the sale will be the residents of Los Alamos. Up to now, they could own little property in the city, have paid the U.S. between $69 and $186 a month to rent their duplexes and single homes. They will be given first choice in buying their current residences at prices as much as 25% below recently appraised values. Not for sale: the massive scientific laboratories, where half the research is still devoted to atomic weaponry, half to peaceful applications of the atom...
...working definition of poverty, the U.S. Government sets a minimum income sufficient for an urban family of four, based on $2.80 a day for food, with an added factor for rent and services. It adds up to $3,100 a year, or $2,200 for farm families who grow their own food...
...describes a political organization ridden with tension and rent by personal feuds. He pictures the Goldwater effort as crippled by disunity and lack of planning. His disgust runs so deep that at one point he observes, in certain exaggeration, "Almost every unfortunate incident of the campaign could have been prevented by adequate advance planning. In the confusion and uncertainty that actually prevailed, it is perhaps miraculous that Goldwater did as well...