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...some Kirkland House students last week received missives of a different kind from their superintendent, Kevin Higgins. To selected students (apparently those who vote in Massachusetts), Higgins sent a political message: vote against rent control in the November referendum...
...less reticent were people who are paid to discuss sex: therapists, Cosmopolitan editors, Penthouse publishers. "Dr. Ruth Westheimer suggested that one option left out of the study's sexual-preferences section was sex under the armpit," says New York correspondent John F. Dickerson. "Helen Gurley Brown explained her 'rent a husband' theory, where an older single woman can get a married man who 'would be happy to oblige because he's probably not getting it at home.' And Bob Guccione told me he had never met a man who had not masturbated or a woman...
...local rent control supporters contested Higgins' position on the issue...
...Rent control] has been challenged several times in court, and has continually been upheld," said Susan Weinstein, the assistant counsel to the Cambridge Rent Control Board...
...majority of locally registered voters vote "Yes" on Question Nine in a Massachusetts referendum in November, rent control in Cambridge, Brookline and Boston will be eliminated...