Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plots of land--one directly behind Dunster House and the other adjacent to the Leverett Towers. Cowperthwaite St. divides the two segments of the site. The Administration hoped to build the House solely on the land behind Dunster, but was unable to purchase one crucially-located plot on the block. Attempts to acquire this land have stalled progress on the tenth House for more than two years...
...prime complaint centers on what Chase Manhattan Chairman George Champion calls "government by guide line." Alcoa President John D. Harper and Inland Steel Chairman Joseph L. Block are just two of the many corporate chiefs who argue that the wage-price guides are unworkable and unfair in that they are applied unevenly and have not prevented wages from soaring in industries as varied as construction and textiles. Though he endorses many of Johnson's other policies, Gaylord A. Freeman Jr., vice chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago, criticizes the guideline policy because "it's not good...
...brick walls and wholly refurbished a 62-year-old, 24-unit tenement, then rented three-fourths of the resulting modern apartments to tenants who had lived there before. Workmen are giving the same treatment to another six-story shambles next door, and four more tenements in the block are in line for similar rescue. Rents, of course, have risen. The rent-controlled apartments once brought $20 to $40 a month. After renovation, U.S. Gypsum collects $65 a month for efficiency apartments, $78 for one-bedroom and $85 for two-bedroom units...
...responsible home-grown leadership. Working by night as a boiler fireman for the city's Sanitation Department to support his wife and two teen-age sons, he customarily cuts his sleep to five or six hours to spend more of his day struggling to get people on his block to "participate." Says Gypsum's Obey: "If Paige can keep these people together, we'll be all right...
...student can ignore the stories of seniors who have been classified 1-A and sent to Vietnam because they were a course short, or of frenzied appeals to provincial Selective Service boards who fail to understand Harvard's system of course credits. The draft has become an inevitable stumbling block for any student who considers the slightest deviation from a program of four sequential full years of college. The desire for security has led many of them to reconsider ROTC...