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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King, still conscious and calm, was rushed to the Harlem Hospital with the letter opener still in his chest, was soon followed by a score or so of well-wishers and Negro leaders. Also present: fleet-footed Governor Averell Harriman, who was campaigning for re-election in the city when he heard the news. Two and a quarter hours after King was taken to the operating room, a surgeon announced that the blade, narrowly missing the critical aorta near the heart, had been removed and that the victim had a good chance for full recovery. But Harlem's leaders...
Plans call for elimination of the 21 safety islands on Massachusetts Avenue, considered contributing factors in many recent accidents, and for a modern system of traffic lights. The present signal system is 30 years...
Eisenhower said there is seemingly "no present prospect of early resumption" of classes...
Pratt said that the Program hopes to raise the other $35 million mainly from gifts larger than $10,000 and from non-alumni donations. At present, corporations have contributed only about $500000 toward the Fund. Workers are confident, however, that businesses are "beginning to recognize their responsibilities toward "leading private universities" and that gifts from this sector should begin to increase soon...
Workers seek to complete the $82 million drive by Commencement, 1959. At present, the Program is approximately $36 million short of its goal, having received about $47 million in the past year and a half...