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Next Beame chose Joseph L. Galiber, 49, a lawyer and state senator from The Bronx. It was another popular selection: the 6-ft. 4-in. Galiber had been well known in New York ever since he was co-captain of the 1950 City College basketball team that won two national tournaments. Two weeks ago, as some 75 friends and relatives of the nominee gathered happily at the city hall rotunda for the swearing-in, a police guard entered the room and announced tersely: "The ceremony is canceled." Reason: Beame had just learned of an alleged $2,050 irregularity in Galiber...
...just a business, it's a life-style," explains Eleanor Jacobs. "Most of our shop owners, as well as customers, are into things like yoga and vegetarian eating." They are also totally into their strange footwear. "When I got married last weekend," confesses Albie Sikirdji, a Bronx student, "I wore my Earth Shoes...
...listened to the proceedings over loudspeakers from adjacent rooms. Yet in a U.S. district court in New York last week, Joanne Chesimard, 26, and Fred Hilton, 20, reputed members of the radical, gun-toting Black Liberation Army, were acquitted of charges that they and two companions had robbed a Bronx bank in September 1972. The jury verdict ended their second trial on the charges, after the first resulted in a hung jury (11 to 1 in favor of conviction...
FASANELLA'S CITY text by Patrick Watson. 148 pages. Knopf. $15. Ralph Fasanella's city is New York. As a young man he was a cio organizer among electrical workers; now he pumps gas at his brother-in-law's station under the Cross Bronx Expressway. And he paints-vast crowded canvases filled with 40-year-old billboards, saloons, cigar stores, subway entrances. It is easy to label him an urban Grandma Moses, but Fasanella's paintings are crammed with emotions that range from sentimentality to outrage at the assassination of President Kennedy. His strongest qualities...
Triton exemplifies a new type of college that is redefining the concept for many Americans: the public community college. From The Bronx to West Los Angeles, these educational supermarkets are offering their varied shelves of learning to a growing clientele. Enrollment nationwide has more than doubled since 1965, to an estimated 2,689,000 this fall. The students are as diverse as the courses they take. Nine-year-old Triton's student body of 16,681 (up from 1,243 in 1965 and 13,034 last year) includes housewives, off-duty cops and laborers in their fifties, as well...