Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a trustee of Johns Hopkins University and the New York Public Library...
...jobholder out of four in metropolitan Youngstown (pop. 225,000) is a steelworker, and thousands of other breadwinners, notably the railroaders who haul to and from the mills, are directly dependent on steel for their living. Thousands more, from the busmen who drive steelworkers to their jobs to the doctors who treat their illnesses, are indirectly dependent on the now-silent mills. When the mills are strikebound, Youngstown feels a tightening pinch. But this time, after 2½ months of shutdown, Youngstown is enduring its pinch with remarkable serenity, surprisingly little hardship...
Measured by the tastes and habits of the ordinary newspaper reader, the Wall Street Journal is agonizingly dull. For determinedly conservative makeup, the Journal's front page-six solid columns of type unrelieved by a picture-has no rival among U.S. metropolitan dailies. Its stories can hardly be called sensational: a looming shortage in milk bottles, potholes in the Inter-American Highway, a slump in the price of dried fruit, a rise in individual assets-to cite but a few of the subjects that rated Page One play last week...
...Harvard Graduate School of Design last year dealt with northern New England, particularly land use, Isaacs, explained. This year, with Yale assisting, the two groups can better focus on southern New England industry. Since the Yale group's attitude is more attuned with the New York metropolitan area, it can contribute to a broader basis for study, Isaacs said...
There seems to be little or no reason why Harvard could not make a similar gesture to youth groups of--if not the state--the metropolitan area. Our seating capacity is much less than Yale's, of course, but this need only mean that the project be less ambitious in scope than Yale's state-wide invitation. Administrative costs could be absorbed by the slight individual charge...