Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within ten minutes by car, be in the wilds of the Dark Continent, watching an entire Bronx Zoo on the loose. Tourists can travel 8,500 ft. up Mount Kenya to the bamboo-jungle-surrounded Secret Valley Game Lodge, a two-story building set on tree-trunk stilts, rent a room for $15 a day (including meals) and gaze in perfect safety at leopards that slink out of the night to feed on baited venison beneath a battery of floodlights. In the "other Africa"-to the north-the scenes and the accommodations are considerably different. Algeria has fallen far behind...
INDIA too is expecting an enormous turnout of tourists this year. And if they ever get beyond haggling with the marketplace throngs of Delhi and Calcutta, visitors can luxuriate in the Shangri-lalike valleys of Kashmir, where they can rent a houseboat for as little as $49 a week and drift about the placid, clear mountain lakes. For the more rugged visitor, Nepal has the Tigertops Hotel, which offers its guests an elephant-back excursion through the jungles. For the athletic, there is a $300-a-week hiking trip through tiny Buddhist villages, across flower-carpeted Himalayan meadows...
...Harvard pair conceived the idea of making a documentary film in December of 1964. Foundation grants and individual gifts, totaling $40,000, enabled them to rent a house in the Natchez ghetto, live as members of the Negro community, and make the film...
...when he arrived amid reports that he was dying. Since then, Phantom Billionaire Howard Hughes, 61, has been shelling out $250 a day for the privacy of the ninth-floor penthouse atop the Desert Inn in Las Vegas. A bit steep, perhaps, but now Hughes will be paying the rent to himself. For $13 million, he has bought a 50-year lease on the entire 600-room Desert Inn, along with its casino...
...discussion was sponsored by Students for Puerto Rican Barrio, a PBH group which is trying to help Boston's Puerto Rican community by organizing the residents for economic and political power through rent strikes and tutorial programs...