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However rent control wasn't going to slip onto the books that easily. Cronin gave his opinion that the ordinance was illegal for two reasons. First, an independent expert investigation would have to be made to determine whether or not a housing emergency actually existed in Cambridge, and second, the appropriation of $5000 mentioned in the ordinance was inappropriate because funding is a function that belongs to the city manager...
There are sexual ramifications as well. "If I eat yang I slip into my desire body," says Michael Bobier, owner of an organic restaurant and food shop in Marin County, Calif. "Yin food makes me more ethereal. Women often find what is soft and gentle in a man most appealing about him. It's much easier to be tender on a yin diet...
...both were arrested in East Berlin last summer for pasting up propaganda posters bearing Nazi swastikas. They joined three other Americans in East Berlin's grim Hohenschoenhausen prison: Jack Strickland, 28, who was sentenced two months ago to four years for alleged border violations and supposedly trying to slip East Germans out of their walled-in country; Lyle Jenkins, 30, who drew 2½ years on similar charges; and Mark Huessy, 21. who is serving the longest term of all. Six weeks ago. Huessy drew a seven-year term for slandering the Communist regime...
...Jose was hardly tight. There could have been an alternative route away from the place; in any case, Nixon's proximity to and taunting of the demonstrators could have been avoided. After the assassinations of recent years, are we to believe that these security break-downs were mere slip-ups? Hardly...
...Architecture cannot give it to them by making ebullient panty raids on the sleeping past, grabbing a cornice here, a vault or pilaster there. It is a matter of integration. Not many architects now living have Johnson's integrative powers. He is a highly educated architect, able to slip like a dolphin through the currents of style: history is his natural element, and from the last 20 years of Johnson's output it is clear that he took to a manner of freewheeling historical allusion as his proposed alternative to the International Style-which by 1950 had frozen...