Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absence of a midway, with its cooch dancers, catchpenny games and garish gadgetry. Instead, there are more religious pavilions than any other U.S. world's fair has ever known. The 1939 fair had only a single Temple of Religion; organized faith has taken better advantage of its rent-free opportunities in 1964 with numerous exhibits and no fewer than eight buildings...
...Hudds' haven cracks slightly when Mr. Kidd, their senile landlord, half-remembers that their apartment used to be his bedroom. Then a man and his wife looking for lodging threaten to rent the Hudds' room; and a blind Negro who had been living in the cellar asks Mrs. Hudd to come back to a mysterious unsavory past, to her home. Like The Dumbwaiter, the play ends with a grotesque shock...
...banishment came foreign exile. Traveling on forged passports, using such names as Meyer, Petrov and Jordanoff, Lenin lived as a cafe conspirator in the West, spending long hours in the great libraries of Europe. Occasionally, he slipped back into Russia and out again. From the beginning, the Marxists were rent by savage quarrels. As soon as three or more gathered together, they divided into left, center and right. The "European" wing, under the German Karl Kautsky, who was savagely denounced for seeking to "reform" Marx, eventually evolved into today's democratic socialists. The Russian wing, under George Plekhanov...
...come forward with a working plan on key problems of racial discrimination in New York City. The CORE group has demanded a concrete plan from the city to end de facto segregation in the school system and job discrimination at construction sites. They have asked city support of a rent strike in the Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant ghettos and the creation of a committee of civic leaders to investigate charges of police brutality...
Family Talk. System/360 emphasizes another dominant trend in computer design: versatility. The new IBM family has junior members that can be rented for $2,700 per month or bought outright for $133,000; its largest systems rent for $115,000 per month, cost $5,500,000 to buy. The family's largest and smallest members are now compatible; they use the same computer language and talk to each other at grisly speeds of many thousand characters per second. IBM intends that big and little ones will be connected in closely intimate groups, chattering like crazy 24 hours...