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Still, the preplanned city is one of the most imaginative solutions to the age-old urban problems of congestion and coordination. The Government for years has been underwriting the expansion of old urban centers, thus helping to create one racially and socially segregated suburb after another. With the population of the United States still growing rapidly, Federal financing of new towns--either with FHA-insured mortgages or direct construction subsidies--is becoming a more and more attractive alternative...
Seltzer's views played no tangible part in Loeb politics until the Fall of '63. The age-old issue of faculty control continued to obsess the HDC; disorganized amateurism remained the Loeb administration's target. Incredibly little headway was made on either side from the Loeb's inauguration through its first three years...
...standard for modern translations: scholars of all faiths freely acknowledge that L'Ecole Biblique is one of the world's most authoritative centers for scriptural study. The school was founded in 1890 by French Dominican Marie Joseph Lagrange, who was a pioneer in countering the age-old Catholic position that to study the Bible was to damage it. Although knowledgeable Protestant and Jewish scholars had long admired the careful work of L'Ecole Biblique's scholars in the field of archaeology, the school came to secular fame only in 1949, when the Jordanian government entrusted...
Fading Away. As black Africa's most populous nation marked its sixth anniversary last week, it teetered on the brink of civil war. The cause of its problems is the age-old struggle between three dominant tribal groups: the ambitious Ibos of the oil-rich Eastern Region; the ebullient Yorubas of the cocoa-growing West; the feudal Hausas and Fulani of the semiarid "Holy North." Their differences are basic and, unfortunately, all too typical of the tribal divisions that plague other African nations. The Northerners are rigid Moslems, suspicious of outsiders, wary of progress, ruled by reactionary emirs whose...
Government has taken thumbs-in-thedike measures against inflation. Finance Minister Anne Vondeling's newest budget calls for cutbacks on outlays for housing, defense and the age-old battle against the sea that the Dutch refer to as "water control." The government has also speeded up tax collections, raised gasoline and diesel-fuel taxes, and is keeping on an extra 1% tax on corporation profits initiated by an earlier government. But at the same time, the government, in various welfare programs, is spending more than ever. Next year, expenditures will exceed the current year's budget...