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...general strike if officials cut the budget too deeply. The squeeze pushed the city closer than ever before to a default that would shake money markets in the nation and world and left the city's leaders exhausted and dispirited. Pleading for help from Washington, Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corp. (Big Mac), plaintively said: "We just cannot go on like this much longer...
Moreover, it became abundantly clear last week that without some form of emergency federal assistance, New York will go into default by Christmas and quite possibly earlier-meaning that the city will have to postpone paying off its bills and loans. Said Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corp.: "The dikes are crumbling and we're running out of fingers." Added New York Governor Hugh Carey: "We have done all that we can to help New York City...
...running hard just to stay even, and that cannot go on indefinitely." So warned Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn last week as he and New York State officials desperately glued together yet another financial "solution" designed to keep New York City from defaulting on its myriad loans-for the time being...
Mike Savit--Boston in six to honor the memories of Roman Mejias, Felix Mantilla, Cal Koonce, Chuck Hartenstein, Bill Landis, Dick Stuart and Pumpsie Green...
...could not expect an appointment in the United States and he had to go to Canada to teach; Lionel Trilling recalled in an article in Commentary that he was the first Jew appointed to the English department a Columbia. The Harvard Law School did not appoint another Jew after Felix Frankfurter until 1939, when Paul Freund and Milton Katz were named assistant professors. The limitation in the academic job market in turn served as an excuse to limit the number of Jewish students in graduate school, the argument being, "Why train people who cannot get jobs...