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...private investment for urban renewal a likely possibility. Real estate men are not practicing philanthropy, at least not on business hours, and slum properties are very profitable investments because of the high population concentration. To participate in urban renewal projects would mean not only giving up lucrative tenement properties, but also paying exorbitant prices for slum land in order to construct (at high cost) less profitable housing. So a lot of government money is needed to set up a meaningful urban renewal program. With the state unwilling and the city unable to contribute a great deal, the bulk...
Specifically, the jury found Hulan Jack guilty of 1) permitting one Sidney J. Ungar, a tenement tycoon and real estate speculator, to foot the $4,400 bill for decorating Jack's Harlem apartment at a time when Ungar was eagerly seeking a $30 million slum-clearance contract from the city, and 2) later conspiring with Sydney Ungar to conceal the facts from the law. An earlier trial had resulted in a hung jury...
...Cover) From the doorway of a tumble-down Singapore tenement one morning last week, the wife of a Chinese stevedore watched her five naked children scrambling in the teeming street and prayed that the baby she was soon to bear would be a boy. In a camp for Palestinian refugees outside the Jordanian city of Jericho, Mrs. Shamma Mohamed Sammour complacently accepted congratulations on the birth of her ninth child-a girl whom the Sammours decided to name Sariah, which in Arabic means rich. On his Brazilian ranch, lean, energetic Berlino de Andrade, 67, confided to friends that...
...hours of Lloyd's declaration, which had been foreshadowed by the signing of a financial agreement in Cairo earlier this year, an irritating little incident rubbed open old wounds. Cairo's newspaper Al Ahram blandly reported that a museum would be made out of the Port Said tenement in which Egyptian "resistance" men scored a triumph of sorts over a 20-year-old British officer after the 1956 Suez ceasefire. Lieut. Anthony Moorhouse of the West Yorkshire Regiment, dragged away from his Land Rover, was kept tied up in the tenement for three days, then left...
Director Truffaut, who also wrote the script with Marcel Moussy, tells a story that derives from his own childhood experiences in a reform school. His hero is a French schoolboy (Jean-Pierre Léaud), about twelve years old, who lives with his mother and father in a Paris tenement. Actually, the boy's father is just a man his mother married when she found herself pregnant-a nice, easygoing nobody who brings home a steady salary and doesn't ask too many questions. The mother herself is no better than she should be: a pretty, shallow blonde...