Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alleged Sadism. Halvonik argued that merely refusing to obey an order is not mutiny. Sood, he said, was simply trying to call attention to his legitimate grievances. The stockade at times had 140 prisoners crowded into a space allocated for 88, and rations were sometimes short. The inmates had demanded that military guards be subjected to psychiatric tests because of alleged acts of sadism. The protest took place three days after a guard killed a prisoner, Private Richard Bunch...
...strike-ridden Italy, everyone, it seems, has something to protest. Last week it was the magicians. A score showed up for a demonstration in front of Rome's crowded Chamber of Deputies building, having abundantly proved their powers by finding parking space nearby (180 others scheduled to attend failed that elementary test). The petition they presented to Premier Mariano Rumor requested that one thing which magicians admittedly cannot grant themselves: professional status and the government-paid pensions that it brings...
...nation's biggest city, the only thing higher than the buildings is the cost of renting a few square feet of space in them. When leases expire these days on apartments not subject to rent controls, landlords throughout New York City are demanding rent increases averaging 26.5%. In Manhattan, rents have been rising an average of 31%, and "horror case" increases of 60% are not unheard of. On top of the boosts, many leases now provide for "automatic" raises of 5% or more a year and further hikes whenever real estate taxes rise. Some landlords offer only two-year...
...expires-and the tenant can take it or leave it. Many middle-income people are forced out just as surely as if they had been evicted, and it does not take long to find a new tenant in what is very much a landlords' market. Desperately seeking living space, Manhattanites generally settle for less space than they need at more rent than they can comfortably pay. Quite a few have fled to the suburbs...
Artist may work with space and color. Since Cezanne, an artist's space has been getting shallower and his color brighter. One of the best pieces in the exhibition, Andrew Tavarelli's red, blue, yellow, orange, and green stain painting, again on a gigantic canvas, is color, floating and blowing across a white expanse...