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...cold snap froze the image of a different America onto the front pages of newspapers and television screens: people huddling outside overnight with little but the coats on their backs. Under blankets, newspapers and garbage bags, they slept on city steam grates to keep warm, huddled over fires in vacant lots, or hid out from the freezing wind in cardboard warrens constructed in the tunnels beneath railroad or subway stations...
...young party chief's reputation pleased two important spa guests: Mikhail Suslov, then the chief Soviet ideologist, and KGB Chief Yuri Andropov, both austere figures disgusted by the corruption of the Brezhnev era. When Kulakov died in 1978, he left vacant the position of Communist Party Central Committee Secretary in charge of agriculture. To fill it, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, presumably acting on the advice of Suslov and Andropov, chose a man he had evidently met only recently: Gorbachev. That meeting occurred on Sept. 19, 1978, at the tiny railroad station in Mineralnye Vody, where Brezhnev's train stopped...
...starting point, MIT might seriously consider some of the ideas advanced by the founders of Tent City now nearly two months ago. Vacant property held by MIT certainly could be used to house homeless people and greater provision could be made for subsidizing low-income units in the new complex. Evictions and arrests can strengthen neither the community, nor MIT's relations within it. In their negotiations with Tent City representatives, MIT has refused to discuss specifics which could provide for a long-term role in assisting the homeless in Cambridge. Without such a commitment, MIT will only create more...
...shaky on the whole thing,' said formerTent City Mayor Evelyr Parks. She said MITofficials implied they would not satisfy TentCity's demands for use of the three MIT-ownedhouses on Blanche Street that are part of theUniversity Park Development Plan. The houses,which have been vacant for 14 years, have been thefocus of Tent City residents' protests...
...brouhaha briefly burst upon the Ann Arbor campus when Bennett's name was bandied about in regards to the vacant college presidency, but University of Michigan and government officials strongly deny he was ever seriously considered...