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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American male often plunges into strange fits of black depression. He wakes in a sweat at 4 a.m. He stares at the dim ceiling. His once bright ambitions creep past like beaten soldiers. Face it: he will never run the company, write the novel, make the million. He feels fat and futile; his kids are taller than...
Although Columbia does own a good $200 million worth of Manhattan real estate-including the land under Rockefeller Center-the boast is not literally true. But to many of the university's neighbors on Morningside Heights, Columbia is about as popular as a slum landlord. Last week 150 demonstrators, including many sympathetic students, clashed with police while trying to block construction of a new university gymnasium on park land that some residents of nearby Harlem wish to protect. Thirteen protesters were arrested. The confrontation was the latest in a long series of emotional disputes involving Columbia and Morningside Heights...
Although plenty of Columbia's students and faculty are indifferent to the plight of their Harlem neighbors, the university is using $10 million of Ford Foundation funds on projects designed to improve housing, schools and legal services in the neighborhood. Nonetheless, Columbia Vice President David Truman concedes that "we simply have not been tooled up to manage our public image." Other officials concede that some residents of the rooming houses were ousted without proper regard for relocation. Belatedly, the university has set up its own relocation office, sometimes offers small grants to help tenants move. The great irony...
Striking teachers of N.E.A. affiliates in Albuquerque returned to work after Governor David Cargo agreed to appoint a special task force to recommend school improvements to the legislature. In Florida, Governor Claude Kirk belatedly agreed to sign into law a $254 million school-appropriations bill passed by his Democratic-controlled legislature-thus abandoning his promise not to raise taxes. Although the measure provides for $58 million in salary increases, the teachers insist that even more money is needed for new kindergarten classes, more textbooks and additional teachers, want assurances that the state will consider the Florida Education Association the bargaining...
POPSI Project. With some reason, the FCC can answer its critics with the defense that its jurisdiction-the entire publicly owned electromagnetic spectrum-is just unmanageable on a $19 million pittance of a budget. It is the FCC that assigns frequencies to ham operators and taxi fleets, TV stations and aviation controllers. It is trying to clear the maddening interference-ridden nighttime AM radio band and the general clutter that hampered police communications during the Watts, Newark and Detroit riots. When people complain about excessive telephone or telegraph rates, or that radio-controlled garage doors are fouling up aircraft communications...