Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GRACE AMIGONE Buffalo...
...perennial attacks, Patman, head of the House Banking and Currency Committee, last week at a subcommittee hearing accused the Federal Reserve Board of spending as much as $588,200 on questionable or frivolous items. Examples: $2,514.11 on a picnic with prizes at the Buffalo branch, $50 for a parking fine and towing charge for a New York Fed official, $20.90 for babysitting charges so that a New York member and his wife could attend two dinners. In addition, Patman was disturbed by the Fed's "Thrift" club, in which the system has contributed almost $2,000,000 annually...
...clean and not too crowded, reports suggest that they are being made to pay for their behavior. Relatives visiting the prison have emerged weeping and complaining that inmates are beaten and threatened as a matter of routine. Last week three inmates testified in a federal court hearing in Buffalo that they had been repeatedly mistreated by guards since the rebellion. District Judge John T. Curtin refused to allow their request to be transferred to another prison, but he issued an order to Attica officials to stop abusing inmates. He also complained that the public was getting a "one-sided" view...
...conventional telegraph ("overheading," in our argot). On those rare occasions when all lines fail, we fall back on manpower. The communications crush during the Attica prison riot got so bad at one point that some material for last week's cover story had to be flown in from Buffalo by courier...
What Was Relevant. One such stop-out is Hillary Emmer, 21. After two years as a listless biology student at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Hillary announced that she was quitting school to "find out what is happening in the world." She zigzagged among half a dozen jobs, made herself an expert on local rent law and won a suit against her landlord. Then she took her $500 court award and hitchhiked across the country. This fall, she finally returned to Buffalo, switched her major from biology to community education, and turned on an enthusiasm...