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...Bronx: 200,000 for Stevenson...
...city (comprising five counties), its suburbs (three counties) and "upstate." The city is overwhelmingly Democratic, the suburbs and upstate heavily Republican. New York elections are decided by which area goes its way by the biggest margin. The city's counties (called boroughs) are themselves divided (Manhattan, The Bronx and Brooklyn are Democratic; Queens and Richmond are Republican), but the net result is almost always Democratic. The politicians' rule of thumb has been that a Democrat who goes over the wall from New York City with a 500,000-vote margin will carry the state. There are indications...
...Only a few days after opening a mammoth $102 million building and endowment program, New York University announced that it was off to an unexpectedly quick start. It had just received $1,500,000 for a new student center for its Bronx campus. Donor: Frank Jay Gould, '99, son of the financier, whose family has already made possible Gould Hall, Gould Memorial Library, and much of the Hall of Fame...
...police roadblocks, stabbed, kidnaped, looted and finally, in a Philadelphia suburb, held a family captive for 19 hours (TIME, Sept. 22). Then they headed for Scranton, took a wrong turn, came to New York instead. When they ran short of cash, they staged a three-minute raid on a Bronx bank, got $12,680. Early one morning this week, eleven days after the escape, 31 New York police, armed with tear gas, a tommy gun, service revolvers, broke into a seventh-floor uptown apartment. On a bed stood Joseph Nolen, naked to the waist, one hand behind his back. Crouched...
...trouble is that the way they make the schedules these days, all the seven or so odd other teams have to play the Yankees 22 times, a factor that tends to keep at least part of the World Series in the Bronx...