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...London, few are as tall, as eye-catching or as potentially profitable as Harry Hyams' Centre Point. Or as empty. In the seven years since the 34-story building was completed on St. Giles Circus at the end of bustling Oxford Street, it has not acquired a single tenant. Many Londoners have charged that Hyams is purposely keeping it unoccupied to cash in later on runaway rent rises...
Even though Americans are uneasily aware that by demanding their rights they may be discommoding other people (an overbooked hotel can only make room by evicting some other tenant, an overbooked airline by bumping some other passenger), they should complain anyway. It may not do any good this time, but maybe next time the airline/hotel will stop overbooking. There is probably no need to resort to such dramatic ploys as that of one airplane pilot who, informed by a Paris hotel that his long-booked room was not available, stripped to his underwear and lay down on a lobby sofa...
...tenant family in a Harvard-owned building received a rather rude surprise Monday afternoon. While baby-sitting for their one-year-old daughter in their basement apartment, Mimi and William Nixon noticed that plaster was starting to fall from their ceiling. Climbing upstairs, the Nixons discovered that a brigade of Cambridge Fire Department trainees was busily hacking away at the second and third floors of the building...
Free Land. Before the current land reform, U.S. studies had ranked South Viet Nam among the world's four worst areas in terms of peasant landlessness, that classic precondition for rural insurrection.* As much as 58% of the rural population lived a hand-to-mouth existence as tenant farmers-a higher level of landlessness than in prerevolutionary China, Russia or Cuba...
...tenant farmer who can show that he is tilling a piece of land is entitled to take free possession of it, up to certain limits (7.5 acres in the vast Delta, 2½ acres in land-poor central South Viet Nam). Landlords are allowed to retain a maximum of 30 acres provided they work the land themselves or hire wage laborers...