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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beame has made his sharpest reductions in the departments that can least afford them: police, fire, sanitation. The latest cuts, however, will fall heavily on the department of social services, which is often accused of inefficiency; last year many millions of dollars in welfare checks were misplaced, lost or stolen. Meanwhile, the city's biggest bureaucracy, the board of education, tried to fend off cutbacks. Ordered by Beame to pare $39 million from its budget, the board offered to reduce school sports programs or subsidized transportation for handicapped students. Said City Budget Director Melvin Lechner: "The board is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: One Step Back from the Brink | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

That was the high point of the Buttfucks' public depravity. Yale has freshmen now who have never heard of the group. Even Pancho Valdez is gone now, "sort of stolen back by the police this summer." Graduation looms for the Buttfucks, who say they have settled into "a quiet, domestic depravity." They are not particularly concerned about academic pressure, although Yo Mo Dobro Jo himself talks about a continuing sexual tension at Yale; "the sexual scene basically just isn't very cool," he says...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: God and Bladderball At Yale | 11/21/1975 | See Source »

Gorski sees this new arrest policy--which has the support of the University committee on crime, chaired by Stephen S.J. Hall, vice-president for administration--as a means of significantly reducing the property theft rate at Harvard. Hall said Wednesday that $3000 to $4000 worth of property is stolen each week...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: A New, Tough Stand | 11/15/1975 | See Source »

This is the second theft at Hemispheres in a month. The stereo was stolen four weeks...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Hemispheres Robbed | 11/14/1975 | See Source »

...strangest of all, some of the committee's documents--financial records and transcripts of interviews--were stolen three times in late September No one seems to know who the thieves were or why they wanted what the committee had, but they apparently were Divinity School-connected people...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Big Change, Strange Circumstance | 11/1/1975 | See Source »

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