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...opposing slums and juvenile delinquency in the abstract is like opposing sin; only concrete actions count. Before time runs out on the Federal grant, the new City Councilors should join with City Manager Curry and produce some real progress toward urban renewal. As soon as possible they should appoint a general supervisor and establish a housing authority, so that the embryonic Redevelopment Authority will know where and how to start work. If these steps are taken and the necessary funds appropriated, Cambridge's Urban Renewal Plan can get under way while there is still something left to renew...
Ohio's professional Democrats who ask Lausche to appoint their friends to state jobs are almost certain to be turned down. For this reason, his name is a special cuss word among the members of the state's Democratic delegation to the U.S. Congress-yet even they have a sort of grudging admiration for Lausche's freewheeling manners. Says one Congressman: "The easiest way to guess what Lausche will do next is to decide how you would not do it yourself." Lausche even manages to keep his wife guessing about his politics. Last summer Jane Lausche...
...Special Cases. Scarcely had Grainville moved into his new post when another prisoner, a petty thief named Jean Manguy, caught the warden's ear with some choice views on Baudelaire, Proust and Dramatist Henry Bernstein. "Ah," said Warden Billa, "I appoint you my private secretary...
...forger and car thief. "You know," René told him, "I'm only here because of wild oats sown in my youth. I'm really a poet, and I've written several novels." Billa was fascinated. "You," Billa said at last, "are obviously misplaced. I appoint you prison accountant...
Soekarno, for his part, acknowledged the army's growing power, but he also remembered the colonel's past loyalty. Said the President: "Lubis has spit in my face and dragged me through mud, but he's still my son." When Soekarno returns from Mecca to appoint a new government, he may find that son Lubis and his army friends have a few suggestions to make...