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...historic accumulation of fiction and fantasy has always confounded the analytic powers. Consider James Agee. The presence of a handful of tenant farmers moved him to an epic work of genius; yet, in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, it is easier to locate Agee than the not quite so exciting reality of rural Alabama...
According to Manny Trillo, assistant director of tenant selection for the Cambridge Housing Authority, the number of Hispanics in Cambridge lies somewhere between two and ten thousand. "In my ten years in social service, the biggest problem has always been getting a count. These people are not registered to vote, not registered in schools...
Maria Mantzaris, a tenant in a building owned by the city's largest landlord and most ambitious converter Harlow Properties, testified at a city council hearing that she paid only $92 a month rent because Harlow Properties refuses to correct the building's numerous safety and sanitary code violations. Harlow Properties has scheduled the building in which she lives for conversion...
...more than 1,000 deaths and 10,000 injuries a year. Insurance companies estimate that in 1976 arson cost $2 billion in claims. As a result, fire insurance premiums have risen sharply in the past five years. Adding other, related costs such as business failures, loss of jobs and tenant relocation, Walter D. Swift, vice president of the American Insurance Association estimates last year's total arson price tag in the U.S. to be between $10 billion and $15 billion...
John H. Henn '64, special counsel to the subcommittee, said last night even if the petition is approved by the state legislature, it will have a minimal effect, as judges usually grant such stays if the tenant seeks legal action...