Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pathologically guarded from outsiders. The stories said that Hughes, suffering from emphysema and Addison's disease, went to Boston for treatment four months ago, ensconced himself in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where he rented the entire fifth floor and posted armed guards to keep newsmen away. Was the tenant really Hughes? Reporters picked up a trail when they heard that Hughes was spirited off by private train to Las Vegas and carried on a stretcher at 4 a.m. to a penthouse bastion at the Desert Inn. The hotel doesn't even show that he is registered...
...second act is better. Something happens in it. The landlady (Miss Lenya) decides not to marry her Jewish tenant (Mr. Gilford) because of the climate of anti-Semitism. The cabaret girl (Miss Haworth) refuses to leave Germany with the American writer (Bart Convy) and, thinking their relationship at an end, gets an abortion. There follows a melodramatic confession scene in which Miss Haworth broadly hints at what she has done, but scrupulously avoids the word for it. Mr. Convy zips off to Paris, Miss Haworth goes back to work, and Hitler comes to power, with all that that entails...
...with force during an attempted rape, Robert C. Jordan Jr. was sent to California's Soledad prison in 1958 for an "indeterminate" sentence of six months to ten years-with a chance for early parole if he behaved. He did not. By last year, Jordan was a familiar tenant of Soledad's Adjustment Center, in what the prison calls a "strip cell" for "incorrigibles...
...provides cards for the indigent that entitle them to consult private lawyers at regulated fees of $16 per hour, but not more than $300 per case. Of 86 attorney-client conferences, 57 were concerned with divorce actions. The others dealt with such items as bankruptcies, real estate matters, landlord-tenant problems and support and custody cases...
...lord of the manor, an unfeeling fellow, imposes a rent increase on his poor tenant farmer. In his turn, the farmer cuts his field hand's wages to nearly nothing. In the next move, the destitute worker is sent off to debtors' prison...