Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carol Bellamy, president of the New York City Council, will deliver the Commencement address at the Kennedy School of Government tomorrow...
...books cover a wide variety of topics, including a biography of former President Lyndon B. Johnson (written with Johnson's brother) and "Afro-6," a novel about street life in New York City...
...COULD have been New York, except for the garden hose. They don't have gardens in New York, and carbon monoxide is everywhere. It could have been any big city, any middle city, this drying up of hope and wetting down of sorrow. It happens all the time, anonymously, in cities...
...loan company is inquiring among his neighbors whether he can ever work again. In Hartford, Conn., a recent college graduate hears that she has been rejected for a teaching job by a private school because it has somehow found out that her mother is under psychiatric care. In New York City, women who have registered for abortions at a private clinic are besieged by phone calls from right-to-life advocates trying to dissuade them...
...tighten the secrecy of medical records, Congress is now considering a number of bills, including one introduced by Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York, another by Democratic Representative Richardson Preyer of North Carolina, and a third on behalf of the White House. All three measures cover mainly institutional records, not those kept by doctors in their private offices. Also, they would continue to allow release of information for such worthy scientific purposes as inquiries into the effectiveness of a particular drug on the course of a disease. But they would prohibit the kind of blanket, open-ended authorizations that...