Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cumulard, or land-grabber, and bewail the fact that in recent years the actress and 37 other wealthy city slickers−among them Movie ActorJean Gabin−have all staked out exurbanite estates in Orne. This has inflated land values (current price: up to $900 an acre) and displaced tenant farmers, who complain that they can no longer find farms to rent in the region...
...most other church-sponsored groups, the custom has been to demand a "founder's fee," which means the tenant has to pay a proportionate share of the building cost of the entire project. In some cases, he also has to agree to remain in the project for life, and to assign the community all personal assets in exchange for permanent care until death (many oldsters find this humiliating and restrictive of their freedom of choice...
...Notorious Landlady is Kim Novak, and her tenant. Tack Lemmon, does not ask for anything more until Scotland Yard prods him into some horribly funny discoveries...
...television camera was discreetly installed in the apartment-house lobby. When an apartment owner's bell rang, all he had to do was flip his TV set to Channel 4, and the image of his caller flashed on the screen over a specially installed closed circuit. Thus tenant could have a good look at caller before deciding...
...electronic snooper, viewers could keep tab on which tenant was being besieged by bill collectors, which girls were going out with what boys. In one building, a married tenant whose wife was away was caught, on Channel 4, escorting a shady lady through the lobby. In the University Apartments on Chicago's South Side, the building's bachelors now enter and leave through the basement. Said one unmarried woman resident: "If you come home late from a date and the boy wants to kiss you good night in the lobby, you can almost feel all the eyes watching...