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Stealthily, and above all "scientifically," the gang prepares to take its objective, a neighborhood jewelry store. The plan involves a vacant apartment through which the store can be entered. Mamma mia! A few days before the robbery the gang discovers that the apartment is not vacant at all. Two nice old ladies live there-they just never open the shutters. Fortunately, the old ladies have a pretty young housemaid. The boxer makes a date with her. She falls madly in love-and impulsively announces that she has quit...
Like Prisons. The drawbacks to life in this dynamic workers' paradise are many. The apartment houses exist amid shacks, slums and vacant lots that still make up most of the city and never appear in the propaganda. Gaunt and suspiciously prisonlike on the outside, the barracks-like apartment blocks have mess halls and community toilets but neither heat nor running water in the apartments themselves. But by rigid regimentation and the help of technicians from Eastern Europe, Communist North Korea has made impressive economic progress of a sort. Ninety-five percent of the peasants are herded into Soviet-style communes...
...because no one from the Class of 362 in Lowell House filed a petition, Merrit revealed one seat on the Council would remain vacant for the next term...
Unopposed candidates will fill a majority of the vacant seats on the Student Council, Thomas B. Merrit '61, Chairman of the Elections Board, announced yesterday. Contests have developed for only one of the 18 positions open...
Making Millionaires. In city and suburb alike, says HOUSE & HOME, the present tax structure harnesses the profit motive backward: it abets speculation, penalizes development. Underdeveloped land and vacant city lots are taxed, on the average, at less than 25% valuation across the U.S. v. 40.8% for business properties. Land, comprising one-third of the U.S. national wealth, carries less than 5% of the total tax load. Not surprisingly, land speculation has made more millionaires since World War II than any other form of U.S. business or investment...