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Cambridge is a city of 6.2 square miles, 98,958 people and 37,440 registered motor vehicles. For many years it has been distinguished by a cruel rat maze of street patterns and traffic signals, pedestrians who enjoy the legal right-of-way over red lights and policemen, heavy trucks that rumble through the city for points north of Boston, and commuters from Belmont and Watertown who drive a legion of automobiles into Cambridge, park them, and leave on the MTA for work. While these distinguishing features have persisted, Cambridge traffic has become more snarled with each passing year...
...exposé showed that Georgia's only mental hospital, saddled with the stigmatic name of State Hospital for the Insane at Milledgeville, was a monstrous snake pit. Behind the façade of an administration building that looks like the White House, it was crowded to its rotten, rat-infested rafters with 12,000 patients. At least 3,000 were senile oldsters who did not belong there-any more than the epileptics, dope addicts or alcoholics who jammed the hospital. Comparatively few patients ever got better, and those who did succeeded mainly on their own resources, for among Milledgeville...
...York's P.S. 100 is an ancient elementary school where Mayor Robert Wagner was greeted by a rat on an inspection tour last year. There the peace Corpsmen will undertake projects involving work with slow students, conferences with parents, and help for P.S. 100's disastrously limited staff...
...Rat Race. Three players alone preside over the audience of baroque music aficionados left behind four years ago by Wanda Landowska, the harpsichord's high priestess. Today's masters are Ralph Kirkpatrick, Sylvia Marlowe and Valenti, and their tight little world is tense with competition: vassal harpsichordists nourish the strain by running joyously to one master with rumors of another's poor recital. Valenti has little taste for this suspicious sport; he would, if anything, prefer to withdraw...
...York are concerned, Valenti might just as well have been out of town for the past ten years; even though he lives in the city, constantly makes records (53 albums since 1951), teaches at Juilliard, he gives recitals almost everywhere but home. "I'd rather avoid the rat race in New York," he says. In 1960, his records were withdrawn. Then last November, Valenti played to a packed house at Carnegie Recital Hall, and three of his albums were promptly reissued. Two weeks ago, he played there again, and now Westminster Records is ready to restore dozens more Valenti...