Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leave, the condominium owner is responsible for only his own mortgage and tax payments; the co-op owner, as a stockholder in the whole building, can be confronted with the alternative of paying the defaulting members' share or getting out himself; 3) the condominium owner can sell or rent to whom he chooses-including actors and Democrats...
...father, Nicola, came to the U.S. from southern Italy when he was only twelve, soon bought his first Model T, and within eight years had parlayed it into a thriving rent-a-car business that grew to a fleet of 33 cars, mostly Fords. He returned to Italy at 31 to select his bride, found her in his home town of Benevento and honeymooned at Venice's sultry Lido Beach. Back in the U.S., they called their only son Lido out of sentiment for that spot. Iacocca's father branched into real estate around Allentown, Pa., so increased...
...grocery. "What are they selling?" asked a passerby. "Onions," replied Honzik. A queue grew at once, and in an hour cleaned the store out of onions. Realizing that he was "on to the greatest discovery of the century, " Honzik hired a crew of old-age pensioners and started a "Rent-a-Queue" business. Wherever the Rent-a-Queue gathered, business immediately soared. Honzik's biggest victory was for "Beastexport," a store that had been stuck with 40 giant praying mantises from Brazil. He called in his ready-made queue, soon sold all the mantises...
...traditional British hobbies-serving on a Good Neighbours Club, writing Keep Britain Tidy letters to the local papers, collecting back numbers of boys' magazines like Gem and Magnet through which he vicariously enjoys upper-class memories of "uncles with fivers, tuck shops, and inky fags." Acting as a rent collector in a shabby new housing development, he dreams of spending a week amid the iniquities of Hamburg's sex-riddled Reeperbahn. Yearning for some power to push him beyond compulsive peeping to the wilder shores of physical love, he finally cries out desperately: "There must be nymphomaniacs...
...Negro Labor, A National Problem" and the "Negro Ghetto." He was Vice Chairman of the Housing and Redevelopment Board of New York City and Chairman of the Board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, before entering the Kennedy Administration in 1961. Earlier, he served as Rent Administrator for New York State...