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Despite his steel-and-concrete environment, Commoner was fascinated by nature and became an avid biology student at James Madison High School, where he was put into a corrective-speech class to overcome his shyness. On weekends he prowled Brooklyn's Prospect Park for interesting "goop" to study under the microscope. He put himself through Columbia University with a variety of odd jobs, including researching medieval coinage for an economics teacher. He graduated in 1937 with honors in zoology and a faith in the liberal causes of the time, such as the Scottsboro boys and the Spanish Loyalists. Bright...
...company will show an estimated $30 million in consolidated profit for the year, largely from its rich real estate operations; earnings will be down from $90 million in 1968. The Penn Central's $6.5 billion assets include four Manhattan hotels and a 24% interest in Madison Square Garden, real estate in Florida, Texas, California and Georgia, and a 7,600-mile oil pipeline system. Such holdings make many angry travelers skeptical about Saunders' protestation of poverty. Many are convinced that this winter's scandalous service is a deliberate attempt to drive them away and have the Government...
Circulating among Government departments in Washington is a 19-page treatise called "New Federalist Paper No. 1, by Publius." Two centuries ago, "Publius" was Hamilton. Madison and Jay, whose collective prose, "written in Favour of the New Constitution," became a classic catechism of the American democracy. The Nixonian Publius is White House Speechwriter William Safire, a longtime G.O.P. public relations consultant...
...almost as old as India -where it is called bandhnu. It is as new as the boutiques that blossom along Sunset Strip and Madison Avenue -where it is called tie-dyeing. Knotting cloth and dipping it in dye to produce patterns of colorful blobs, swirls and splotches has suddenly become a bright new fad of both high fashion...
PUTNEY SWOPE. Recommended for acid heads and those with good peripheral vision, this movie shares with If. . . a distrust of all systems of social order. Robert Downey, an underground ( Chafed Elbows ) filmmaker, wrote and directed Swope, which explains what happens when a group of militant blacks take over a Madison Avenue ad agency...