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...recent years, of course, millions have fled the city for quieter destinations-New York has lost some 400,000 people in the past five years. Many of the 7,500,000 who remain,* however, represent a durable breed. Often they have a sense of the city as something splendidly special...
...Democrats, having been out in the cold for eight years, are so confident that they are cautioning each other, as Lincoln once said, not to "cackle until the egg is laid." With Viet Nam over and factions muted by quieter times as well as party reforms, no serious ideological issues divide the Democrats. Now, as Mark Siegel, a Strauss aide, observes, "there's a desire-it's almost a lust-to come together and win. Most of us hold ourselves almost personally responsible for eight years of Nixon and Ford...
...most of its 67 years, the Amsterdam News has catered to the middle-class aspirations of Harlem's business and professional people. It is sold 90% on the newsstand, and its blazing red front-page headlines stress crime and gossip. But the rest of its news comes in quieter hues: close attention to black politics, knowledgeable reviews of black art, music and books, a World of Work page that offers stories on the movements of blacks in Government and corporate positions, personality profiles, accounts of business successes...
...Jersey, which controls Kennedy International Airport, to withhold the craft's landing permission pending a six-month evaluation of its noise levels in Washington. The plane's loud departure from Dulles suggests that the delay may be a long one. Though a later departure was considerably quieter, the noise from the first Concorde takeoffs exceeded New York's allowable levels of 112 decibels by 17 decibels...
...eaten for lunch. Most of the other women in the room stared into mirrors, ratting hair, applying pancake, and blowing up balloons in the empty stretches of time, all over a continual underbuzz of conversation. Three men on the far side of a partition went through a similar, if quieter process. One man paced between the two make-shift rooms, alternately blowing up a green balloon and giving instructions. Every ten minutes or so he yelled out a Cape-Canavral countdown...