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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With co-op prices so high and rents climbing, the renovation of old houses and buildings is an inviting alternative. Whole neighborhoods, such as SoHo (south of Houston) and SoSo (south of SoHo), are undergoing strikingly imaginative renovation. Neighborhood and block associations have proliferated, increasing New Yorkers' sense of community and their feeling that they are not at the mercy of an anonymous city bureaucracy. If a neighborhood association makes a fuss about infrequent trash collections, a sanitation truck shows up fairly promptly. A certain new self-reliance is evident among New Yorkers, who on their own are reclaiming...
From East Africa to Capitol Hill, a lot of lofty political leaders have a working relationship with Businessman James Wilmot. James who? His name is scarcely a household word even on his upstate New York turf. But Wilmot's otherwise unprepossessing office, in a cinder-block building at the edge of the Rochester airport, contains a profusion of photographs showing him with people in high places...
...administer the Sacrament represent Christ, they should be, like him, male. Objected the Rev. Elizabeth Weisner of Washington, B.C., one of some 150 women who have already been ordained: "A priest is a priest is a priest. The Sacrament is unchanged by the person celebrating it." A bigger stumbling block was opposition from the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, particularly since Anglicans like to consider themselves a kind of ecumenical bridge between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. The greatest obstacle, however, was the real threat of that rarity in Anglicanism-schism. After the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of Anglicanism...
...police commissioner in the 1960s, surrounded the house with officers wearing flak jackets and carrying automatic weapons. Fearful of feeding racial tensions or harming the children, city officials decided not to use force. Instead, they tried to starve MOVE into surrender. For 56 days, the police isolated the block with sawhorses, aimed a water cannon at the house and cut off its gas, water and electricity. Finally, in May, the siege ended. MOVE members reluctantly turned their weapons over to the police and promised to vacate the house within 90 days...
...dissertation) completed the Careers in Business project, a unique, tuition-free program sponsored by the New York State Department of Education. The 31 men and 19 women, ages 26 to 45, spent seven weeks attending classes at the New York University School of Business Administration, just one block from Wall Street. For many of them, teachers or students until now, the crash courses in accounting, finance, economics, law and marketing were a first exposure to the world of business. Notes Randy Lewis, 31, a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, "What we've all gained is confidence...