Word: chaing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Castriotta, whom tenant groups have accused of shady and corrupt practices in CHA matters, announced August 26 that she would leave the housing authority because of poor health. Speaking to reporters from her bed in Cambridge City Hospital, Castriotta said she had suffered two heart seizures and had been advised by her doctor to leave the CHA before her five-year term expires in October...
Although Castriotta indeed has health problems (she is now at Mass General), many tenant groups here have speculated that a problem of another nature forced her to opt for resignation. As the summer progressed, Castriotta found her iron grip on CHA operations slipping, in large part stemming from the July appointment of a pro-tenant commissioner to the five-member CHA board and the resignation of her ally Charles A. Ferraro, CHA executive secretary. His day-to-day running of housing authority activities in the last year led to charges by a State Community Affairs official that the CHA...
...been authorized to market in 1951. But no further steps were taken by the FDA, and by 1968 a total of 17 million pounds of cyclamate was being consumed annually. Japanese researchers had already reported finding that in some people's bodies cyclamate breaks down in part to cyclohexylamine (CHA), which is known to be dangerous, especially to fetuses and the newborn. Verrett and others who had tested the sweetener had been circulating adverse reports within the FDA. In December 1968, the associate commissioner for science stated that cyclamates "will be removed from the GRAS [Generally Recognized As Safe] list...
...Crampton made it very definite that they were not taking over. They were offering advice," John Donovan, assistant executive director of the CHA said...
...CHA official said he anticipates a $457,000 deficit for the year ending June 1974. The monthly deficit for a state-funded CHA housing unit is $71.34, Sheldon Isreal, an official of the DCA said yesterday. The highest previous deficit shown by a housing authority, he said, was $55 per unit per month. "We had increased [Cambridge's] budget 67 per cent from 1973 to 1974," Israel said. "They were overspending the increase by nearly 40 per cent...