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...financial plight of Mayor Abraham Beame's New York City is so grim that even far-out jokes have a certain plausibility. Somehow, before the end of the fiscal year on June 30, the city must raise a staggering $1 billion to meet its payroll and operating expenses and pay off its notes and bonds. Yet so shaky is its credit that it may not be able to raise the money-with the prospect of skipping payday for city employees or even defaulting on its obligations. The one fleeting hope for a painless solution came crashing down last week...
...dies down, will in fact be one indicator of what kind of people Americans are. One of the difficulties about democracy is that when its leadership is confused, divided or uncertain, then the demonstrations and fury of a few can be taken as the will of the many. Even Abraham Lincoln, that most convinced of democrats, argued that all the people can be fooled (or confused) some of the time: it was democracy's long-run judgment that he would bet on. He lived in an age when rhetoric had not yet been debased. "Peace with honor" was invoked...
...budget protests spread to Manhattan, several hundred Hunter College students occupied the office of the dean of students, and some 900 City University of New York students demonstrated against Mayor Abraham Beame's plans to cut $69.7 million from the school's $702 million budget proposed for next year. At week's end, a dozen Harvard students, reflecting the mood of minority students on other campuses, began a sit-in at the administration building to protest the university's failure to set up a long-promised black cultural center...
...recession have driven the city's expenses $280 million higher than anticipated in this fiscal year, to a breathtaking $12.5 billion, and the recession has cut tax collections by $150 million. That is a financial headache as big as the Waldorf for New York's mayor, Abraham Beame...
Those who study hatred are blotted out; Israel continues, from Father Abraham to this [March 10] issue of TIME. A generation will come when our descendants will look on these dread portraits of King Faisal as Shelley looked on the rubble of Ozymandias' sneer...