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...council wants permission to pass is that proposed by the Cambridge Housing Convention earlier this year. This bill-twice defeated by the City Council during the summer-would set rents at 1968 levels, allowing yearly increases of up to five per cent on the approval of a rent control board appointed by the City Manager...
Susskind said the seven-man committee will go with representatives of the Black Network to the board meeting of the American Institute of Planners next month to seek the funds...
Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics and chairman of the subcommittee, declined yesterday to comment on the recommendations. But they probably suggest, respectively, that Harvard join M.I.T. on the governing board of the Project, and that it not join the governing board but allow individual professors and students to sign contracts with the Project...
...Monday nights, the Advocate Board gathers about a rough-hewn, medieval table in the Sanctum, slouching in the grand wooden chairs with these mottoes carved in them, and talks about its own survival. Our emotions languish with the seasons, because there is seldom any heat in the building; during the winter, we huddle in our overcoats about the table (many choose to wear gloves and hats) or crouch like Milton's toad before the fireplace, burning old issues of The Advocate to keep warm. Exalted, we are artists, suffering through the cold moment of neglect. Our words perish...
...trustees. Last month, while friends of mine were being smashed at M.I.T.. I was in New York getting smashed over oysters and wine at the Century Club. The trustees were meeting to decide whether the August issue would appear before December. Norman Mailer had been elected to their board, and as a consolation for his having failed to be elected mayor of New York, the dinner was being held November 4th. "And would it have been worth it, after all?" If only they had known what a dishevelled throng we really were, how insistent about our own modernity...