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...Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner plead for reelection. Smiling painfully, Wagner shook a few hands, then launched into a pallid denunciation of New York's Democratic machine bosses. The audience response, at best, was mixed. An enthusiastic urchin yelled: "Yay for Wag'ner baby!" A tenement dweller shouted down from his window: "Get outa here, yah bum!" In the crowd, a heckler chanted a bitter litany: "New York is woise than ever, New York is woise than ever...
...teen-age branches of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. "This town is a dump," says a 17-year-old in Stevenage. "Unless you like walking around looking at new buildings. There's certainly not much else to do." In the U.S., sociologists have found similar disenchantment among city dwellers who have moved from their crowded tenements into spacious public-housing developments or out to the new, mass-produced suburbs. Transplanted British families appreciate the advantages of their new homes when compared with their old quarters, but the ministry's report nevertheless concludes that the spacious garden city...
...street as to the professional economist, the best barometer of inflation is the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index, which charts monthly changes in the prices of some 300 items in a "market basket" bought by the average city dweller. Every time the index rises a half point or more, it triggers automatic wage hikes for 2,600,000 industrial-union members. By moving upward over the past two years (it is now at a record high of 127.5), the index has conditioned most Americans to believe that the U.S. is gripped by creeping inflation. Last week...
...best Crimson teams in years and the second-ranked sextet in the East was scared for three periods of play Saturday night before king out a 2-1 victory over Cornell, the Ivy League cellar-dweller and a team that has lost all of its 26 Ivy games since joining the League...
Around the Y. But the central fact of Nigerian politics is not a clash between townsman and bush dweller. It is, instead, racial and religious rivalries pointed up by the mighty Y that is stamped across Nigeria's face (see map) by two great rivers-the winding Benue that pours from the cloud-ringed Camerounian mountains in the east, and the majestic Niger that comes in from the west to join the Benue in a single mighty stream running south to the Gulf of Guinea...