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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Under guidelines issued by Columbia's new president William J. McGill, the YSCC was denied the office space it would have been entitled to as an undergraduate organization because its political activities might threaten Columbia's tax exemption. The YSCC has filed suit against the IRS for infringement of its rights...
Organization such as the Vietnam Moratorium Committee and the Young People's Socialist League are involved in explicitly political action, but do not get any free office space or telephones from the University. Peace Action pays Phillips Brooks House $30 a month for the use of an office. But all these organizations-and others such as SDS and the November Action Committee-use University lecture halls for meetings. It is sensitive issues such as these the University will have to settle to assure its tax exemption against any IRS crackdown...
...from the Top. Johnson's sculpture gallery, with its complex flows of space and rafter-striped light, is a far cry from his 1949 Glass House, but it may, in time, become as famous. Between them lies a career of almost indecent success, starting near the top: wealthy by inheritance, Johnson is now, at 64, one of the three or four best-known architects alive in America...
...plane is on a course for Cuba. Is a modern-day poltergeist on the loose? Not really. These baffling occurrences are, in fact, examples of a serious problem of the Electronic Age. As ever larger numbers of electronic gadgets come into use, they increasingly crowd the atmosphere-and space above-with an invisible pollutant: stray, mischief-making radio waves...
...Stray terrestrial signals at frequencies similar to those being detected are a constant nuisance. It was not until the powerful radar at New York's Kennedy Airport was properly tuned that Bell Labs scientists in New Jersey were able to detect background radiation-mysterious microwave emissions from deep space, which some theorists think are the remnants of the "big bang" that created the universe...