Word: waldorf
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...unofficial motto was: "Sue the bastards." Backed up by an articulate biologist, Charles Wurster, who was his perennial best witness. Yannacone launched fierce and well-documented attacks on DDT in Michigan and Wisconsin; eventually both states banned most uses of the chemical. Later, he haled into court a Hoerner Waldorf paper plant in Montana for polluting the air; the resulting publicity embarrassed the company into installing antipollution devices before the litigation could run its course...
There they all were-the veritable image of geographical distribution-sitting in the Waldorf Cafeteria on Mass Ave, freshman roommates enjoying their first late-night snack in Cambridge. A cool one a.m. in September, 1967. The next night they went out again, this time to the Bick for ham and eggs. They don't do this anymore, of course. This year the Bick and Waldorf disappeared without a trace-and the roommates Harvard so carefully brought together no longer live with each other...
...Penn Central Transportation Co. wheezed into bankruptcy, its court-appointed trustees have put up for sale its blue-ribbon real estate holdings along a ten-block stretch of Madison, Vanderbilt, Park and Lexington avenues in midtown Manhattan. Up for bids is the land under 22 buildings, including the Waldorf-Astoria, the Pan Am Building and the corporate headquarters of ITT, Union Carbide, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., Bankers Trust Co. and the Chemical Bank. These companies have leased the buildings, in some cases well into the 21st century, but eventually the buyers of the land will get control of the buildings...
Welfare rolls have more than doubled in the past five years. Stories of abuse and of administrative bungling-the man who made $18,000 off the system, the housing of a welfare family in the Waldorf-Astoria-have served to confirm people's suspicions about welfare. As city budgets are pinched by rising costs (of which welfare constitutes an expanding chunk) public officials are getting panicky. And liberals with impeccable credentials are asking What is this tangled mess and what do we do about...
...that doomed city within the city last year: $1.7 billion, a sixfold increase in a decade. As is the case with so much of the welfare nightmare, Lindsay's problems mix the pathetic and the bizarre; to his horror welfare officials recently lodged an indigent family at the Waldorf Astoria for a day, claiming absurdly that there was no room elsewhere. Many others on relief, unable to find homes, live in exorbitantly priced but squalid hotels overrun with vice and drug addiction...