Word: transition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the immediate peril - pow er failure or transit strike, water short age or race riot - New York City, like Pauline, invariably manages a third-reel deliverance before crisis turns to catas trophe. The city's latest ordeal, a dearth of funds that has threatened imminent, crippling reduction of municipal services, was averted last week as usual at disaster's doorstep...
...Harvard Student Union scheduled a rally for the morning of April 20, 1940, and arranged for Michael J. Quill to address the gathering. (This is the same Michael J. Quill who died earlier this year leading the New York transit worker's strike.) Quill was, even then, a prominent leader of the CIO and president of the Transport Workers Union. Objecting to the "pseudo-peace stand" and the Communist affiliations of the Student Union, the Harvard Anti-War Committee planned a rival peace meeting the afternoon of April 20, with Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, as guest speaker...
...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority hints that it might extend the Harvard Square subway line under Radcliffe Yard, which does not please the Administration, either. One thousand three hundred forty five out of 6605 applicants are admitted to Harvard's Class of '70 and 348 out of 2075 to Radcliffe's. Seventeen asks "What Are Harvard Freshmen Like?" and concludes that they "are neally no different from the boy next door." A Radcliffe junior, tired of dorm life, runs a tongue-in-cheek ad for a one-year marriage marriage and receives 150 proposals...
When, early in the decade, the University was unable to acquire its first choice, the Bennett St. repair yards of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, it turned to a block of land behind Dunster House. Harvard owned most of the land in this area' lacked one crucial plot...
...Harvard Student Union scheduled a rally for the morning of April 20, 1940, and arranged for Michael J. Quill to address the gathering. (This is the same Michael J. Quill who died earlier this year leading the New York transit worker's strike.) Quill was, even then, a prominent leader of the CIO and president of the Transport Workers Union. Objecting to the "pseudo-peace stand" and the Communist affiliations of the Student Union, the Harvard Anti-War Committee planned a rival peace meeting the afternoon of April 20, with Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, as guest speaker...