Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students, scholars, workers and dilettantes who plunge into the institution's collections each year, there are plenty of shocks and threats. Tramps are sometimes to be found stripped naked in the men's room, washing their only set of clothes. This May a reader in the Main Reading Room was suddenly stabbed by the person sitting next to him. The assailant turned out to be a mental patient on day release from a Manhattan psychiatric institution. He wanted to be readmitted because the food was better there than at home, and resorted to violence to get attention. Especially...
...Access," says President Couper, "is the name of the game. We probably do more here by way of public service than any other institution." Yet even if he had forgotten this, an inscription in the marble of Astor Hall, the library's main, high-ceilinged lobby, reminds visitors that the City of New York built the place in 1911 "for the free use of all the people." On New York's 42nd Street, that promise is all too literally being kept...
...seemed so aptly named. Looking ahead to the coming winter, the priests were stunned to discover that their heating-oil bill for 1979 will make even the $12,000 they paid last year look like a bargain. To cut costs, they plan to close off the 1,100-seat main sanctuary during the cold months and hold services in the church chapel and chapel hall, which together can accommodate only 500 worshipers. Explains one priest: "It is simply a question of 45 gal. an hour to heat the big church against 6 gal. for the chapel...
...Provisional Revolutionary Government. We devised a formula according to which neither Saigon nor the P.R.G. was mentioned in the document; the agreement to end the war in Viet Nam has the distinction of being the only document with which I am familiar in diplomatic history that does mention the main parties. The negotiations had begun in 1968 with a haggle over the shape of the table; they ended in 1973 with a haggle in effect over the same problem...
Coach MacAusland cites Kellogg's leadership as one of the main reasons the team has the spirit it does. "Elaine is a casual and relaxed leader which allows team members to be more comfortable among themselves and enjoy the game more," MacAusland says...