Word: transition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more a Manhattanite by temperament than is a citizen of Omaha. Manhattan is heavily populated by the East Side affluents, by poor blacks and Puerto Ricans, by youngish singles. Elsewhere in the vast, often dreary reaches of the boroughs, middle-class and working-class families predominate. A transit stoppage or a heavy snowstorm that is a minor bother or even a chance for bravado and gallantry in Manhattan can bring near paralysis in some of the outlying sections...
...this reality, imagine that everyone changed their assumption and took it for granted that the world is soon to end. Now imagine that in spite of the general downhill course of events in the world, in spite of New York City, high rents, high prices, bad air, worse water, transit strike, teachers' strike, garbage strike, two hours on the freeway, in spite of the telephone company, a 2 billion dollar corporation that can't give you a dial tone and doesn't know why- in spite of all this, someone stood up before these people in Sanders Theatre and tried...
...student problem is a special one in the NPD program. Students in German universities are more radical and more militant than in the United States. At one German university a local transit workers strike brought massive student support. The radical students organized their cars to provide transportation for anyone who might otherwise use the scab-operated city trolley lines. Thousands of students responded and for weeks they controlled the city's transportation. The strike was successful-largely due to student help...
Porter Square: about a fifteen minute walk north on Massachusetts Ave. from Harvard Square, Porter Square is the major business district for North Cambridge. The MBTA plans to extend its rapid transit to Porter Square (Harvard Square is now the end of the line) but lack of funds has held up the extension...
Cheaper at Auction. The interest declines were small but widespread. Rates on bankers' acceptances-corporate promissory notes issued to finance goods in transit or storage with payment guaranteed by a bank-fell by ¼% to 8%. In the bond market, Treasury bills sold at an average 6.86%, down from a peak of 7.22% last month. Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone sold $75 million in debentures at 7¾% compared with a 7.9% rate on the last Bell System bond offering in July...