Word: manhattan
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...painful limits of power have never been felt more keenly by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and his youngest brother David, chairman of New York's Chase Manhattan Bank. For weeks they had been pleading for federal help to prevent a default by New York City. The personable, thoughtful banker had often traveled to Washington to meet with Ford and to testify before the Senate Banking Committee. His message: the reverberations of default could badly damage the U.S. and world economies. It was David Rockefeller, in fact, who persuaded Brother Nelson to change his mind on aid to New York...
...experts judge that some nuclear wars are likely to occur before this century's end. The five are: Schelling, a professor of political economy; Biochemist Paul Doty, head of Harvard's Science in International Affairs program; Physicist Richard Garwin; Chemist George Kistiakowsky, a former executive of the Manhattan Project; and M.I.T. Political Scientist George Rathjens, formerly a special assistant to the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency...
Moon growing, Buckminster Fuller, Norman Cousins and others have withdrawn as advisers for a meeting of eminent world scholars Nov. 27-30 in Manhattan, organized by a Moon front...
...thousands and thousands of men who have studied composing," says Pianist-Conductor Bo ris Goldovsky, "to produce only about three dozen masters. Statistically, wom en may simply have to catch up before they have their Beethoven." There are signs they soon may be getting their chance. In June Manhattan's Juilliard School for the first time awarded a doctorate in composition to a woman. Bi centennial money and International Women's Year have resulted in more commissions for female composers...
...slums do better work when they attend middle-class schools. But his follow-up report earlier this year argued that compulsory busing has driven so many white urban families to the suburbs or to private schools that it is making city public schools more segregated than ever. In a Manhattan speech last week marking the 75th anniversary of the College Entrance Examination Board, Coleman offered his solution: let any student transfer to any school he chooses within an urban-suburban metropolitan area-provided only that the new school has fewer students of his own race than his old school...