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...from all municipal facilities, including the local park and lake. The obsession with racist regulations took on surreal dimensions last week when the council voted 10 to 7 to grant the transfer of a lease for the Golden Lake Chinese restaurant from W.G. Ho to another Chinese woman, S.Y. Yip. The only catch: a provision in the new lease that barred nonwhites -- including Chinese -- from dining at the restaurant...
...Well, yip, yip, yaphank, and let's all wish a happy 100th birthday to Irving Berlin. This week everybody's doin' it -- celebrating the boy born Israel Baline in Russia a century ago, who came to the U.S., reached for the moon and found that there's no business like show business. God bless America: Berlin's songs are his life...
...local bosses in some instances. Soon foreign managers will have the leeway to hire and fire workers. Output was dismal at the Electrical & Electronics Ltd. appliance plant until Owner Y.K. Chen insisted on bringing in his own supervisors to direct the operation. The factory is now run by Yip Shao-Chen, 24, a woman from the ranks of the assembly line...
...Murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will be openly taught and practised." One reads such things nowadays-collected at last in Nancy McPhee's Book of Insults-and imagines a whole world packed with high-strung terriers, poised to yip at the slightest noise...
DIED. E.Y. ("Yip") Harburg, 82, song lyricist who wrote the witty, often wistful words to the movie musical The Wizard of Oz and to Broadway's Finian's Rainbow, as well as to such tunes as It's Only a Paper Moon and April in Paris; in an automobile accident; in Los Angeles. The New York City-born Harburg, who won an Academy Award in 1939 for Oz's Over the Rainbow, remained productive and outspoken through the '60s and '70s, deploring the newer generations of songsmiths for their "lack of craftsmanship, their imitative...