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...there is a certain social stigma associated with the building. Dom Pantano, a transfer student placed in the overflow housing, said last week that when he tells people where he lives they say, "Oh, you live at the Y? That's the pits." Pantano added that the atmosphere where he lives is not quite what he had expected at Northeastern. He said when he asked the desk clerk if there was a cigarette machine, the clerk said in shock, "Son, this is the YMCA...
This was not a vast, much-publicized Billy Graham crusade like those that have drawn millions of people throughout the non-Communist world. The audiences on the hillside and in subsequent overflow church meetings were made up of devout Protestants, not the general public. To make sure of that, Hungary's state-run media carried no advance notices of the gatherings...
This summer, when Tufts officials realized that they had more students than space to put them, they decided to house the overflow in the Sheraton Commander and run a shuttle bus between the hotel and the Tufts campus on the Medford-Somerville line...
...overflow crowd packed Room 3302 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building last week, drawn by the promise of a heated confrontation between Budget Director Bert Lance and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Lance had been called to answer accusations that he had acted improperly while president of the National Bank of Georgia, his job before joining the Carter Administration. The major charge was that the Georgia bank had wrongly deposited $200,000 of its funds at Chicago's First National Bank in exchange for a personal loan to Lance of $3.4 million (TIME...
...Manhattan criminal court, some prisoners shouted protests against the heat and overcrowding. To handle the overflow, the city reopened the Tombs, a Manhattan jail that had been closed by federal court order in 1974 as too decrepit. Feeding the prisoners was a serious problem at first because most restaurants had closed for lack of electricity. Many families brought food to relatives behind bars. Others subsisted on coffee and rolls...