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Still, controls seem to captivate more and more middle-class tenants. To them, rents are an easily identifiable and ever increasing part of their budgets, even though the rent component of the Consumer Price Index since 1967 increased only 71%, while the CPI as a whole went up 107%. Says George Sternlieb, director of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University: "Such people know the evils of rent controls. But in view of their immediate concerns, many have adopted an attitude of 'I'll worry about posterity tomorrow...
...know. The sixties died long before Phil Ochs wandered into his sister's bathroom in Far Rockaway, New York. And Marc Eliot makes a good case that Ochs did too. Phil Ochs went down slowly, painfully, and the actual moment of his death only confirmed what Ochs had guessed from the evidence of Chicago, or Kent State, or Chile. And by the time Ochs actually made his final break, the parts of his life that might have made his death the tombstone of his time had long since withered away...
Even though Ochs couldn't match Dylan's record sales, Ochs managed to gain public and critical acceptance beyond the confines of the Village. But somewhere along the line Eliot had to justify his contention that Ochs took the sixties along with him when he went. The last two hundred pages document Ochs' rise to the post of "the Movement's poet revolutionary," and his fall through the long, long Nixon years. The only problem is that his rise was so pitifully short. Ochs had just about three years from his first major benefit at a Berkely anti-war teach...
...group of us got together and we went out looking for this guy," Paul said, adding that he and some of his friends held tennis rackets for protection...
Seniors concentrating in History will take their general examinations today. Robin B. Balthrope '79, a History concentrator, said yesterday, "I'll be glad when this is all over. Everywhere I went this last week, I've had a book in hand." Balthrope said she has studied about eight hours each day during the last week in preparation for the History general examination...