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Fall & Rise. Whatever it took, it was worth it. For the University of Chicago, once a renowned haven for brilliant teachers and bright scholars, had fallen into sad estate. The South Side area around the 125-acre campus had become Chicago's worst slum. The university was losing many...
The problem was plain-but immensely difficult to correct. Well-meaning Mayor Kennelley had announced plans for a 900-acre renewal program, but was never able to translate those plans into substantive action. It remained for Daley, using every instrument of his political power, to make the project really move...
Too Little Land. One reason is Mexico's overenthusiastic land reform, whereby most of the big haciendas have been atomized into thousands of tiny, four-to twelve-acre ejidos and given to peasants. The bite-sized plots often prove so uneconomical that the peasant can barely eke out a...
To get elected, Bosch sent up reform programs like soap bubbles. Besides new hospitals, schools, old-age homes and better transportation, he promised to dole out 16-acre farm plots among 70,000 rural families. Another Bosch promise: economic diversification. Right now the Dominican Republic succeeds or fails with its...
Last spring, after venomous and frenzied preliminaries unusual even for Cambridge, the City rejected, five to four, $5,500,000 of federal assistance to renew Donnelly Field in East Cambridge. Chief features of the 114 acre area are three auto junk yards and an abandoned school.