Word: waldorfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Farewell to Waldorf...
Shortly after 1 a.m. this morning. Buckley appeared before a tumultuous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel crowd which was singing "Goodbye Charlie, glad to see you go" and said. "The American people have decided that they want a new course, a new polities. And I am the voice for that new polities." Before he spoke, "Dixie" was being played and applauded...
Earlier, Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad met privately with Rogers at the Secretary's suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers; such is the degree of U.S. concern that President Nixon personally telephoned Rogers' suite to voice still one more plea for rectification...