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...Swainson's request for aid to state universities and colleges from $105,700,000 to $98,400,000, upsetting the schools' delicately balanced budgets and forcing them all to restrict enrollments next fall. Especially hard hit by the reduction was poor but proud Wayne State University in midtown Detroit, which relies almost entirely on public funds, has no endowments to match those of the University of Michigan or Michigan State University...
...Rockefeller tradition is also evident in the building's location: when consolidation of nine different Chase offices into one building was first considered, many Chase executives favored a move to midtown Manhattan. But Rockefeller argued for the island's rundown southern tip, set a hopeful trend for New York's congested financial district by insisting that two-thirds of his bank's two-block site must be given over to a tree-lined plaza. Between the new Chase Bank and other renewal projects for which he is pressing (the chief one: a world trade center...
...thin wedge of midtown Manhattan last week, most of the populace seemed to be dancing-or watching. At the Metropolitan Opera House, Moscow's phenomenal Moiseyev Dance Company was playing to capacity crowds, while the waiting line for standing room coiled around the block. To the north, aficionados flocked to the spring rites as celebrated by Martha Graham and her dance company. But most excitement focused around Denmark's Erik Bruhn, a handsome, blond, well-muscled performer for the American Ballet Theater who not only has the best profile since Barrymore's but may just...
...story by Franz Kafka or by one of his contemporary imitators. It is a recent dream remembered in precise detail by a successful New Yorker (one wife, three children, fair income, no analyst) who works with every outward appearance of contentment in one of Manhattan's new, midtown office buildings. Whatever Freudian or other analysis might make of it, the dream could serve as a perfect allegory for an era that is almost universally regarded as the Age of Anxiety. It speaks of big city towers in which life is lived in compartments and cubicles. It speaks of the century...
Marching Machetes. Scarcely three days later, bands of men armed with catanas, wickedly sharp Angolan machetes, padded through the steamy quiet of predawn Luanda. Four Portuguese policemen were surprised in a parked car and hacked to death. Some 50 of the raiders made a sudden assault on the midtown military prison but were cut down by machine guns. Others attacked a police headquarters close to Luanda's huge African city of shacks and grass huts; police officers tumbled from bed to fight for their lives. Three days later, the casualty list was curtly announced: six members of the police...