Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Shortly after Tito broke with Moscow in 1948, he defused the issue by signing an agreement, negotiated under British and U.S. auspices. The pact gave Italy administration over the city and Yugoslavia day-to-day control, though not formal sovereignty, over a 40-sq.-mi. area to the east of Trieste known as "Zone B." Since then, relations between the two countries have improved to the point where neither requires visas from the others citizens...
Bolted Borders. In this final installment, Khrushchev does not discuss the events leading to his own downfall in 1964. But he does offer some thoughts about life inside his vast country. "If you try to control your artists too tightly, there will be no clashing of opinions, consequently no criticism, and consequently no truth," he says. In a similar vein, he says of the country's stifling travel restrictions: "Why should we build a good life and then keep our borders bolted with seven locks...
...coffeepot of a station that does not require the Moog Synthesizer or fancy arrangements may get its custom image for as little as $690, or perhaps a combination of cash and commercial time. P. & T. gets reimbursed by reselling those commercial minutes to such spot clients as Orkin pest control, Safeway supermarkets, or STP ("is the racer's edge...
...Sweden's Goran Gentele (pronounced Joran Gften-tell-uh), 53, who for the past seven years has directed the Royal Opera House in Stockholm. He will move to the Met next June to learn the ropes during Bing's final season. When Gentele takes full control in July 1972, he will assume the most prestigious, toughest and probably the highest-paying (reportedly $100,000 a year) administrative job in all the arts...
...Property Owners do not need these means. Their battle will be won or lost eventually in the courts. In January the Massachusetts Supreme Court will hear their suit contesting the law's constitutionality. Everyone who has played this game so far will be there. If the judge rules rent control unconstitutional the game will be all over. If not the city government, the tenants, and the landlords can continue to play Monopoly with the rent control issue. In any event the Property Owners are going to keep Park Place and Boardwalk. Rent control may eventually succeed in getting some temporary...