Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tough-minded economic adviser, forced upon the reluctant Japanese a stiff dose of deflation and decontrol-and thereby laid the foundations of Japan's present economic strength. No less vital was the land-reform program which, by redistributing 4,500,000 acres of land and cutting tenant farmers from 48% of the agricultural population to only 9%, gave Japan a contented rural population that has been the mainstay of its conservative-minded governments ever since...
...soundproofing!1' groans another embittered tenant. "Somebody above wakes me up every morning playing Chopin on the piano." Adds Fran Weiss: "When the guy next door says to his wife, 'Roll over,' I roll over...
...about two years ago in a flossy brochure that spread out a tempting smorgasbord of the good urban life: "A new conception of city living . . . privacy and space heretofore undreamed of in New York City . . . electronic living," and so and on. "If you read that," mourns a discontented W.S.V. tenant (rent: $353 a month), "what would you expect? You'd expect the best of everything...
Both the Crown Prince and the lieu tenant commander share a natural flam boyance. At 31, Moulay Hassan is a slim, handsome young man with a taste for fast cars, fleet horses. French starlets, huge signet rings and narrow, pointed shoes. Commander Blair, 43, is a brash, talkative Texan who describes Moulay Hassan as "one of the most able men alive today." As public relations officer at the U.S. naval base at Kenitra, Blair kept the prince supplied with gifts from the PX. He further endeared himself to court circles by presenting attractive Princess Lalla Aisha, 29, with a cowgirl...
...Passed in 1958 and upheld by the state supreme court in its first test last week. Wrote Justice Aron Steuer: "Just because a man is a Negro, he is not, ipso facto, a desirable tenant. But the statute does not say that. It says the converse-because a man is a Negro he is not, ipso jacto, an undesirable tenant...