Word: partings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began his career during the Panic of 1907 by going to a Wall Street skyscraper, knocking on the door of every office and asking if the company needed help. When he got to the Goldman, Sachs office, he was taken on as a porter's assistant. A large part of his ability to win financiers' confidence was that he not only did not hide this background but even exploited the curiosity value it gave him on Wall Street. Until his death, he kept on display in his office the brass spittoon that he had supposedly polished...
Krishna Consciousness is a non-sectarian combination of Indian relations. One follower called it "a study of Dharma, the Eternal Religion." The essential part of the study is chanting, through which, "it becomes revealed to you what the spiritual world...
...part, the answer lies in the fact that this is a time of troubles for Cambridge. Long established neighborhoods--cohesive communities with churches, bars, and candy stores all their own--are being threatened by a host of outside forces--the proposed Inner Belt highway, the new NASA center, and above all, an influx of new, would-be residents who are soaking up housing and driving up rents. People do literally get thrown out of their homes in Cambridge though, it must be admitted, how many do is not known...
Packed council chambers are always likely to spark symbolic confrontations, and the chambers were very packed indeed during the rent control debate. In large part, this was due to the idea behind the entire housing convention movement, an idea currently popular with Federal agencies in Cambridge and elsewhere--"citizen participation." The young CEOC staff members who, behind the scenes, did much of the housing convention organizing take "citizen participation" in local government as one of their guiding lights and speared no pains to assure a large turnout of angry citizens for the council meeting and housing convention rallies...
...next few months may well be ones of lost opportunities for Cambridge; chances to alleviate the housing crisis are likely to slip away for lack of political push behind them. If the past year's agitation has done nothing else, it has at least created an awareness on the part of the City government and other institutions, primarily the universities, that some action is required on housing...