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When Walt was five months old, his father was deported to Surinam for violating immigration laws. The child spent the rest of his short life looking for a father surrogate. His search was limited to the area around Harlem's West 116th Street, where-like many children who grow up there-he learned about hustling, dope and sex before he was ten. Often he subsisted on potato chips, baloney and sodas...
...morning the night before the third bust and second police battle. We are walking down Broadway from Columbia's 116th Street --Checkpoint Charlie, where you pass in and out the campus through credentials check. Shouting and sounds of riot draw us around the corner of 110th St. A dozen students standing in front of a small white-pillared building are shouting up at a 15-story Columbia dormitory, Carmen Hall. About half hold beer cans. Student heads stick out from every third window in Carmen and yell back. I am told that those on the ground are Jocks from "Beta...
...Library, threatened to defy university regulations by organizing another demonstration inside a campus building, staged a confrontation with New York City police outside the university's main gate in order to challenge the ban against outsiders on campus. On cue, some 1,000 demonstrators gathered at Broadway and 116th Street. But there was no repetition of the bloody clashes that had marked the previous week's events. Police shrugged off the student taunts, and within two hours the crowd dispersed...
...when the tread peeled off a rear tire and flailed the underside of the car, smashing the battery and exhaust pipes. Ferrari mechanics slapped on a new wheel, and turned the car over to Britain's Grand Prix Champion John Surtees. But the rear axle snapped on the 116th...
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-Low Memorial Library, Broadway at 116th. A collection of Chinese art objects-ceramics, bronzes, jades and sculptures-is dominated by a half-ton Buddha head in stone, described by Art History Professor Jane G. Mahler as "one of the most important pieces ever to come out of China." Through June...