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...major stumbling block to an early start, the architect said, was the inability of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority to vacate the site for the Library--the M.B.T.A.'s 12 acre Bennett St. repair yards...
...Local Transit Number of Workers 38,000 Month of Expiration...
Political Heresy. Ever since he was hit by a subway strike barely five hours after he assumed office a year ago, Lindsay has been involved in an almost constant courtship of calamity. After the transit strike came a fare hike, and neither of them endeared him to voters. Faced with an empty treasury, he imposed a new city income tax and made the New York Stock Exchange consider exile across the Hudson because of an increased stock-transfer tax. His cherished civilian-controlled board to review complaints against the police was ignominiously defeated 2 to 1 at the polls...
...effective as it ap proaches 1967. The 90th Congress shows every sign of being the first Congress in many years from which labor has no hope of winning any prolabor legislation at all. Several major strikes in 1966 that greatly inconvenienced the public - including the airline and New York transit strikes - have given labor a tarnished image, and its fracturing of the economic guidelines has not exactly made it popular in Washington. Finally, the U.S. labor movement has fallen to quarreling within itself at a time when it faces serious challenges and organizational difficulties...
...binding is not a book, and the book has been lost in transit. The "I" of Isherwood's Berlin camera was the author himself, intelligent, sentient, an amused and ironic observer of a society in vortex. The "I" (Bert Convy) of Cabaret is a gaping boy tourist with a typewriter. In the Isherwood-Van Druten versions, Sally Bowles focused the disorder around her in personal disorientation, sex-sipped sorrow, pleasure-bent pain. The part is beyond the technique and temperament of Jill Haworth. Sally is a mixture of waif and wanton, gin and gallantry; Actress Haworth...