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...Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons spread his neo-Babylonian banquet for the Security Councilmen at the Grand Concourse Plaza Hotel, Iran seemed far away indeed. Marshaled (vainly) to convince the U.N. that they should not move out of the hospitable Bronx were steaks, caviar, champagne and a three-piece band to play Meadowland for Delegate Gromyko. But no sooner had the last mellow tones subsided than the jarring discords of the supposedly settled Iran issue again filled...
...fingers and asked Governor Thomas E. Dewey to authorize an extra $142 million for the city's tax bill-almost one-third of it for subway rehabilitation. The city's annual budget was already second only to the Federal Government's. A few appalled city councilmen suggested raising the subway fare to 8? instead. But the council majority, long sold on the vote appeal of the nickel fare, vetoed the suggestion...
...Councilmen Disagree...
...three Councilmen who make up the housing subcommittee failed to agree on which of the University's proposals they considered more attractive. Michael J. Neville, chairman of the group, remained superficially impartial, but kept bringing the discussion back to the $1-a-year plan...
...floodlights, beating upon the councilmen and, ranked behind, the rows of professional diplomats, some of them lost in horror at this new, clean, open thing...