Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operate only 49 hours a week, sharply down from the 1970 figure of 78 hours. The problem is that the library, despite its name, is "public" in only one aspect: its availability to the multitudes. Only $2.5 million of its annual budget is contributed by the taxpayers of New York City. The other $17.5 million comes from private bequests, state and federal grants and donations from the public. It is woefully inadequate. Priceless books are disintegrating in the humidity because there is no air conditioning. A backlog of 200,000 acquisitions in storage may take two decades to process fully...
PENN at COLUMBIA--Possibly even more tedious than last week's Columbia-Lafayette recess. The Pope was much livelier in New York than in Philadelphia this week, though, so Columbia should take it, 5-4, with a bases-loaded triple in the ninth...
Campaign '80 will also include panels on economic issues and a panel with reporters from the New York Times, Brian L. Dunmore '80, chairman of the Guests Subcommittee of the IOP, said Thursday. The IOP is still considering other panels for the program, he added...
...Pope found equally receptive audiences in New York, Philadelphia, Des Moines and Chicago this week. In New York, an enthusiastic group of high school students presented the delighted pontiff with a sweatshirt and blue jeans and played basketball marches...
Recently Gofman spoke at the New York no-nukes rally where Musicians United for Safe Energy entertained a crowd of 200,000. Jackson Browne and company will keep the machinery of dissent from running on empty by raising money with benefit concerts. But the members of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility are supplying much of the movement's intellectual firepower. Among them are Lewis Mumford, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and four Nobel Laureates: Linus Pauling; James D. Watson; George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus; and Harold Urey...