Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Hollywood and the hegemony of Spain seem inescapable. Spain's low living costs are equaled nowhere in Europe except Greece and Yugoslavia, and its range of scenery and climate are matched nowhere at all. Orson Welles, making do with a fish-and-flour warehouse as studio, paid rent of a mere $120 a month. And he didn't have to fabricate a medieval cobbled-street market, a walled village, or a 12th century Romanesque castle: all were within kilometers of his set. Which left most of his rigid $1,000,000 budget for casting, and he could...
...idea holds some promise, except that Director Sinatra and his scriptwriters goof away tension at every turn. A truce seems inevitable, since both camps are rent by internal strife and riddled with clichés. While Kuroki contends with a trigger-happy Buddhist, the American captain (Clint Walker) has to restrain a volatile young officer (played with unwarranted assurance by Singer Tommy Sands, Sinatra's son-in-law). The first meeting of G.I. and Jap ends with some cute business of swapping cigarettes for fish. There is a brief skirmish over a boat, but peace follows when Sinatra...
...implementation of Diem's agrarian "reform" measures in 1957 coincided with the institution of a wholesale terror campaign throughout the countryside. These programs reinstated the landlords who had been removed by the Viet Minh, reinstituted rent, and at the same time failed to provide the peasants with any security of land tenure. All those peasants who had benefited from the Viet Minh reforms or who had supported the resistance movement against the French were considered "subversives" and, like Diem's other political opponents, were either murdered or subjected to torture and confinement in concentration camps...
...told: "Madame, 'Made in Switzerland' no longer means it's made by Swiss." However snide, the comment is correct: 38% of Swiss industrial labor is now foreign, and it soars to 85% in the Swiss construction industry, 90% in the canning factories. Advertisements of rooms for rent often assert "Swiss only"-or, more precisely, "No Mediterraneans...
...gambling. In 1949, the government opened the door to gamblers, and there are many Puerto Ricans who rue the day. But not the hotelmen. The handle at the island's 13 hotel casinos is conservatively estimated at $50 million a year-which pays the rent, tides the hotels over the lean summer months and brings the tourists back for more. Of the Caribe Hilton's $750,000 profit one year, fully $500,000 came from gambling. Another casino grossed $650,000 in winnings in December alone...