Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program to help solve the problems," the President put the legislators on the spot by presenting an extraordinary litany of requests. "Give us action, give us progress, give us movement, and American cities will be great again. Give us funds for the Teacher Corps. Give us more resources for rent supplements. Give us the civil rights bill. Give us the means to prosecute the war against poverty. Give us the child-nutrition act. Give us the hospital bill. Give us the money for urban mass transit." And so on, through a list of bills that, if passed, said Johnson, "will...
...section of Los Angeles has been such a success that he is now putting up two more apartment houses with pads for singles only. "Generally, the apartment business developers weren't building for them and the landlords distrusted them, sure they would damage the place or skip the rent...
There's little risk of rent-skipping at South Bay, a $3,000,000, 248-unit complex housing 500 single stewardesses, doctors, teachers, engineers, secretaries and salesmen. Not only must applicants fight their way up through South Bay's long waiting list but, once in, they simply do not want to leave-even though they must pay rents from $125 for an efficiency to $260 for a two-bedroom pad. These rates are from $50 to $100 higher than those in comparable apartment houses, which are suffering an average vacancy rate of 15%, but South Bay is full...
...loaf. The President wanted a law that would forbid racial discrimination in the sale or rental of all housing in the U.S. The House balked at such a sweeping measure. It voted to exempt individual owners who make no more than two sales a year and landlords who rent buildings with no more than four units and live on the premises. The bill thus covers 23 million of the nation's 60 million housing units (only 6,000,000 of them in the suburbs), leaving 60% of all U.S. housing and virtually all private houses unaffected by its provisions...
Parks preaches rebellion against Momism to the best friend (John Leyton) who idolizes him. He persuades Leyton to pay half the rent on a seedy flat, uses it to enjoy Leyton's girl friend (Jennifer Hilary) and finally seduces Leyton's divorced mother (Jennifer Jones). Shortly afterward, The Idol explodes with the kind of gut-clutching Greek passion that seems altogether alien to the cool contemporary scene set forth in the rest of the picture...