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...curtailment of downzoning. At the other extreme, non-incumbent John Brode '52 (CC '75), formerly a co-founder with Saundra Graham of the radical Grass Roots Organization, points to what he calls a "causal link between high rise buildings and crime," and argues that tax dollars from development are eaten up by the cost of providing increased city services. Brode favors abolishing the property tax altogether and replacing it with a state-imposed graduated income...
...buildings down to 65 in winter and up to 80 in summer; closing Dudley Hall, the Lehmann Hall dining facility for commuters, substituting continental for full breakfasts in over half the Houses; and charging boarders who withdraw for the full term instead of merely for the meals they have eaten...
...other way to protest, the Americans began selling their stock; they were annoyed not only because they were not consulted on a major corporate move but also because Davis' heavy borrowings for expansion were diluting profits. Last year, for example, Rank earnings of $44.2 million were almost eaten up by $44 million in interest charges. Still, no Rank executives challenged Davis, for understandable reasons. "He has a nasty way of dressing down senior as well as junior executives on the most trifling matters in front of a large audience," recalls one former subordinate...
...because a patient tends to establish a close parent-child relationship with his psychiatrist, he feels abandoned during his absence. Vacationing on Cape Cod last August, Manhattan Psychoanalyst David Mann received several phone calls from patients who had read about the novel Jaws. "They asked if I have been eaten by a shark. What they really wanted to know was whether I was coming back for their therapy sessions...
...hoping to find food and waiting for rain. In the village of Desforges, five miles to the north, children, too debilitated to brush away the flies and insects that swarm over their bodies, sit for hours outside mud and stick huts without moving or speaking. Until recently, many have eaten nothing but mangoes; their arms and legs are covered with running sores that never heal. Monique is a six-year-old boy shorter than a properly developed child half his age. His mother says, Tm afraid that he will...