Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts recently upheld a statute which declares that landlords of dwellings with more than three tenants may not refuse to "rent or otherwise deny accomodation to any person because of race, creed, color or national origin...
...dwindling these days. The Worker is a failure, a Red newspaper that is printed but not read. Its claim to 15,963 paid circulation is as phony as its news. At week's end loyal party workers hawk unsold copies through Harlem, the Lower East Side slums, low-rent housing projects...
...staggering prices (one recently built co-op on Fifth Avenue wants $129,940 for a seven-room apartment, and $18,576 a year maintenance), some of the tinder-traps-on-Hudson are finding it hard to land customers. Apartment seekers frequently are offered half a year's rent free as a lure. The older, more substantial buildings with high ceilings, soundproof walls, and proper entrance halls and dining rooms are coming back into their own, with the result that most of them are being converted into co-ops by tenants who want to ensure their footholds...
...Argentines this is a prize indeed. Housing in Argentina is so short that unpretentious apartments rent for $300 a month, after "key money" of at least $1,000. And between galloping inflation and the fact that moneyed Argentines prefer to invest overseas in safer climes, mortgage credit is scarce and costly. Loan sharks charge up to 45% interest, and most banks have a five-year waiting list of would-be borrowers of mortgage money...
...Unless a man has a social conscience," says one professor who does, "there is nothing here to bother him." Hunting and fishing are splendid; three-bedroom faculty houses rent for $60 a month. Ole Miss has a few highly able students, as proved by the 19 Rhodes scholars that it has produced in 57 years. As for the others, says History Professor James W. Silver: "In a sophomore class of 30, before the end of the first month I'm talking to only five. If the rest don't bother me, I don't bother them." More...