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...economic and administrative problems Their announcement to the effect that an expert committee will draw up a constitution provides no assurances that anything like a democratic government will be restored; their own actions provide even less assurance. It is the responsibility of the U.S., as the perennial Greek army builder, to quit buttressing the colonels and withhold aid until the present regime agrees to constitutional guarantees...
...last year, the exodus had become something of a national scandal. Said Premier Eshkol: "We have been able to build and maintain the State of Israel by virtue of the quality of its citizens. But this qualitative superiority is today in danger. The pioneer of our day, the builder of the land, devoted, knowledgeable, diligent?where is he to come from...
...sources far from the administration have released their annual list of honorary degree recipients. For the year 1967, they are: Harry S Truman, ex-President; Leonard Bernstein '39, author of the Quincy House play; John U. Monro '34, retiring Dean of Harvard College; Buck minister Fuller '17, geodesic-dome builder; Bernard Malamud, Pulitzer-Prize-winning lecturer in General Education; Barbara Tuchman, historian; John H. Finley Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House and Eliot Professor of Greek Literature...
...postwar housing boom, Builder William Jaird Levitt's 17,000-house Levittowns-on Long Island and in Pennsylvania-came to symbolize an era of mass-produced, look-alike homes. Though they made Levitt & Sons the nation's largest home builders, the Levittowns were sneered at by esthetes, spoofed by cartoonists, massively aped by other builders. His old image lingers on, but Levitt, now 60, has stayed at the top of the $25 billion industry by changing his whole approach to housing...
...from their February doldrums, to an annual rate of 1,171,000 new houses and apartments. At that pace, the industry was barely bettering its performance during the last half of 1966. "It's easier to scare buyers away than to get 'em back," says Los Angeles Builder Ben Deane, sounding a common sentiment among his colleagues. "The recovery is going to be slow...