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...only through the election of such liberals that the 86th Congress can achieve a constructive record. A preponderance of so-called "left-wing" Democrats in both Houses can break the old GOP-Southern Conservative coalition which has obstructed so much worthwhile legislation. A liberal majority would lower many of America's outrageous tariff barriers, would work for cheaper public power installations where private enterprise cannot do the job, and would advance more effective foreign aid programs, particularly in the field of economic aid for underdeveloped nations...
...Harvard Young Democratic Club and the Harvard Young Republican Club will sponsor a debate on "Who Should Control the 86th Congress" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Lamont Forum Room...
...Above 86th Street. The Tishman firm was started in 1898 by Norman Tishman's father Julius, an immigrant peddler who turned to real estate to get money to educate his children. Julius Tishman built small tenements in downtown Manhattan until 1910. Then he decided, against all advice, to erect a nine-story luxury apartment on Manhattan's West 93rd Street, despite a tradition that no well-to-do New Yorker would live above 86th Street. The building was profitable, and Julius Tishman made his fortune by continuing to build above 86th Street for the next ten years...
...piece George I silver toilet service, is already as surely a thing of the past as the stately English homes for which the objects were first fashioned. Gone is the era in which the lady of the mansion and her good friend Grace Vanderbilt, who lived across 86th Street, would be chauffeured around the block to visit (because a lady went no farther than from her door to the curb on foot...
Flying conditions over New York City one morning last week were good until about 8 a.m. Then the ceiling came down almost to the level of the Empire State Building's Observation Terrace on the 86th floor, 1,020 ft. above the street. On the floor of the terrace rained a shower of dead and dying songbirds. More than 300 (one-third of them myrtle warblers) died within half an hour after slamming against the big building. Frank Powell, who was in charge of the Observation Terrace, sent word to his friend John K. Terres of the National Audubon...