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Under the new-communities clause of the 1968 Housing Act, the Department of Housing and Urban Development can guarantee $250 million in loans for land acquisition and development to those builders whose newtown plans meet standards prescribed by HUD. The department has already received 17 formal applications and has tentatively committed $30 million to Park Forest South, 28 miles south of Chicago. If the U.S. is to build similar new towns on a large scale, however, HUD officials think that broader legislation and a vastly larger federal role will be necessary...
...park was conceived after the Southern Pacific railway company decided to convert much of its Watts right-of-way to industrial usage. The Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration joined the act by forming the nonprofit Economic Resources Corporation to acquire additional land and run the park. Headed by an aggressive Negro entrepreneur named Richard Allen, ERC's board includes eight other Los Angeles businessmen, one of them black...
Despite Black's fears, the court made it plain that it was approving only demonstrations that do not sabotage the normal school routine. The wearing of arm bands in Des Moines, Fortas said, was a symbolic act "closely akin to pure speech" -and it did not provoke any major disorder. Presumably, the court may not take as tolerant a view of more troublesome demonstrations in the future. And its reasoning may well reach beyond public schools to college campuses, where minorities have effectively prevented other students from getting the education that they or their parents are paying...
Agitation in Britain for liberalization resulted in bitter debates in both houses of Parliament in 1966 and 1967. The debate culminated last year in the passage of an act that permitted a registered physician to perform an abortion, provided that at least one other physician concurred in his judgment, on any one of three conditions...
Measuring Up. Or are they? ROTC goes back to the 1862 Morrill Act, which required colleges built on federal land grants to offer military training. Far from promoting militarism, the whole idea was to prevent the development of an inbred, professional Army by infusing the military with liberally educated officers. Once compulsory at most state campuses (but entirely voluntary since 1960), ROTC supplied 100,000 Army officers in World War II and a steady flow of career men in peacetime...