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Great Obsessions. The cement pourers have been thwarted on dam projects before, but rarely-if ever-on such ecological and esthetic grounds. What rescued the Red River Gorge was frenzied activity by the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society, an outpouring of statements by Kentucky biologists, and most important, intervention by some high-level Republicans, including Governor Louie Nunn, Senator John Sherman Cooper and President Richard Nixon...
After the doors were cleared the police charged students who were standing on the steps of Thayer Hall. About ten Somerville Police charged into the building with shields and riot sticks. During that charge, several policemen pushed Timothy H. S. Venn '72 from his wheelchair onto the cement...
After the doors were cleared the police charged students who were standing on the steps of Thayer Hall. About ten Somerville Police charged into the building with shields and riot sticks. During that charge, several policemen pushed Timothy H. S. Venn '72 from his wheelchair onto the cement...
CITY HALL IS AT Government Center, a short walk from the Park Street subway station, just past the movie theatre where the Beatles' movies come to town. It is a strange-looking building with two big cement eyes which stare out at passing citizens. Strange, but appropriate, for when you look around at the other buildings, it is almost frightening how sterile and monstrous they are. The John F. Kennedy Federal Building, where you go to get your passport, and where the Internal Revenue Service gobbles up your money, stretches up much higher than City Hall in row after...
...builders in the Executive Branch. Therefore it would have seemed only equitable to have appointed a city planner, or at least someone familiar with urban problems, to the post of Highway Administrator. But Turner is, in the words of one high official of the Johnson administration, "one of the cement pourers," and enjoys the reputation of being a captive of the highway lobbies. For planning roads in Colorado or Wyoming, Turner is fine; he is a competent engineer and has been with the Bureau of Public Roads since 1929. But to design roads which cut through congested urban areas...