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...Erich Segal...
Europe as the seducer of American innocence is a theme that has played well at all levels of U.S. fiction, from Hawthorne's The Marble Faun to Erich Segal's latest love story, Man, Woman and Child. As usual, Segal's principal characters are bright, attractive and preppie. Bob Beckwith, Yale '59, is an esteemed professor of statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His wife Sheila, Vassar '60, is a highly valued editor at a university press. The marriage is an ideal balance of temperaments, love, devotion, respect and affection. There are two blossoming...
...Woman and Child, Segal...
Other tenants opposed any general rent increase. While a member of the Cambridge Tenants Organization waved a sign saying "Stop Landlord Super-Profits," Frances Segal, head of the Cambridge Committee of Elders, said, "The purpose of rent control is to protect the landlord from the ravages of inflation...
...Segal said some landlords deserved increases but that they should apply for the adjustments individually, adding, "Many tenants simply cannot afford to pay such an increase...