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Steven B. Goldin '65 said yesterday that despite violent protests from the 71 families involved, the BRA has declared the area "blighted" and has received Federal aid for an area renewal project...
Fifty residents, spurred by formal notification on November 25 of the BRA's plans to redevelop the land, met last Monday to spell out a definite resistance crusade. They decided to hang, from every balcony and window, posters proclaiming that they shall not be moved. "We're going to stay here till Hell freezes over," Goldin exclaimed...
...suburbs because President Robert C. Kirkwood senses "a trend of rejuvenation in the center city." In declining fringe neighborhoods, Kresge has converted its old and unprofitable stores into small-inventory cut-rate stores that sell only limited lines-the fastest selling shades of paint, the most-in-demand sized bra...
...drug traffic. Crude morphine from the Middle East is smuggled into the tough, jaded Mediterranean port and converted to heroin. It is then sent to New York by clandestine carriers as diverse as diplomatic pouches and the Air France stewardess caught three years ago with the stuff in her bra. Balding little Louis Lavalette, chief of the police judiciare for Southern France, has long had a good hunch who was behind the operation: "Monsieur Jean" Cesari, a quick-witted courtly Corsican who, in 20 years of flitting through the Marseille milieu with few visible sources of income, has nonetheless managed...
...using what semanticists call "affective" language, many slogans deliberately exploit chauvinism ("Made in Texas by Texans"), xenophobia ("Yankee go home"), insecurity ("Even your best friends won't tell you"), narcissism ("Next to myself I like B.V.D. best"), escapism ("I dreamed I barged down the Nile in my Maidenform bra...