Word: mayors
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Here's the latest holiday idea from New York, the city with the big heart: charging rent for beds in shelters for the homeless. Last week Mayor Edward I. Koch proposed that homeless persons who either have jobs or receive some kinds of welfare checks pay up to 30% of their income for a cot in one of the 24 city shelters. If the program gets under way at the beginning of next year, 2,400 of New York's estimated 10,000 shelter dwellers would be affected. Those with no income could continue to live in the shelters without...
...York City's most famous dieter, Mayor Edward Koch, lost weight on a VLCD earlier this year and promptly regained it. Worse, he described the formula as "swill." Still, doctors say liquid diets may offer a lasting answer for the very obese. Notes Dr. Albert Stunkard of the University of Pennsylvania: "This is a reasonable way to lose weight. Whether it's better than losing weight slowly over a long period of time we really don't know...
...second, more strongly worded order, sponsored by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci and Councillors Francis H. Duehay '55 and Alice K. Wolf also decried the violence and called on the United Nations to send a team of impartial observers to the Soviet Armenian and Azerbaijani Republics...
...School Committee consists of six elected members and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, who automatically serves as chair and voting member of the board...
...also said freshman member James Rafferty formally announced his support for McGrath yesterday, and that Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci "favors the in-house candidate...