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Both reports also fail to realize that rent control affects different areas differently. Harvard Square is much better able to absorb rent control because of the cushion provided by high rents. In Central Square, however, the landlord's profit margin is much thinner, and as a less affluent area, its housing deteriorates much more quickly with any cutbacks on maintenance. Ironically, rent control is hurting most the very groups it was designed to aid-the lower-income group tenant...
Arlette (Anny Duperey), Stavisky's wife, is even thinner as a character; she is a walking, talking Vogue cover; a silent, cosmetically perfect femme fatale who faints at the proper time and ornaments Stavisky's life in the most necessary way. The center of sympathy in the film is Baron Raoul (Charles Boyer), an aristocrat whose purpose in life has been to dissipate a fabulous century-old fortune. "It was very satisfying," he says of this experience. He is old now, and penniless, with only his courtliness and wry smile left, but he defends his dead friend Stavisky before...
People in Tears. Nixon also looked well, though considerably thinner since his surgery. He made no mention of Watergate all evening, for the most part confined his conversation to such topics as golf and Daughter Tricia's birthday the day before. He did, however, chat about the memoirs he is writing, and was agreeable to the suggestion that he might play some future role in the life of the nation. "He certainly did not lack confidence," a guest reported. "There was none of that hiding, sliding-away business...
...money grew tight, investors began to look more closely ' at the U.D.C. 's unconventional moral-obligation bonds, which are tied not to specific projects but to the highly uncertain fortunes of the agency as a whole. Meanwhile, the U.D.C. 's welcome on Wall Street was wearing thinner by the month as a result of friction between Ed ward J. Logue, the agency's former president, and the New York banking community, where Logue was considered to be "arrogant." When the bankers would ask questions about the U.D.C. 's in come, says Jackson R.E. Phillips, director...
...Ruth's full free swing was being copied more and more, and so was his type of bat, thinner in the handle and whippier, in principle something like a golf club. (Early in his career Ruth used a massive 52-ounce bat, but this slimmed down as Ruth himself ballooned.) Strategy and tactics changed. A strikeout heretofore had been something of a disgrace--reread "Casey at the Bat." A batter was supposed to protect the plate, get a piece of the ball, as in the cognate game of cricket. In Ruth's case, however, a strikeout was only a momentary...