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...Robert Embry, 41, successfully guided Baltimore's redevelopment program from 1968 to the mid-1970s???using low-interest mortgages to attract middle-income residents to downtown and turning the blighted inner harbor area into a showplace of refurbished row houses and new businesses. He caught the eye of Carter, who appointed him Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. As the Administration's point man on urban distress, one of the toughest jobs in town, Embry created the Urban Development Action Grant program that is helping to save 327 distressed urban areas by encouraging private investment. To qualify for UDAG...
...from 33% in 1960?though that is probably less a measure of scholastic excellence than a reflection of the increase in available places in two-and four-year colleges, and the greater competition for jobs at all levels. Everywhere else, the health of U.S. education in the mid-1970s???particularly that of the high schools?is in deepening trouble...
...string of properties. The staffers have outlived their heady days of protest and dissent ("We were dangerous then," says one wistfully). They are coasting, but restlessly. The situation is a neat distillation of the moment in our cultural history when the 1960s turned into the 1970s???though the movie, in one of its few blunders, anomalously sets the action in the present...
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