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Rudolph is largely free, therefore, from political pressures. Not beholden to Cambridge residents or votes, he can ride out public criticism more easily than can a City Councillor. But in addition, Rudolph's scheme is intelligent, and will probably be effective in relieving the City's chronic congestion. Many of his recommendations are based on a study of traffic in the Harvard Square area which was commissioned by local commercial interests in 1962. And Rudolph has carefully avoided several of the mistakes which crippled the abortive plan ten years...
Beset by war, the Vietnamese piaster fell 38.6%. That chronic invalid, the Brazilian cruzeiro, lost another 31.8% of its value in 1966, and thus would pay for only 2% of the goods and services it could command a decade...
...chronic hoof trouble-which forced him out of last year's Kentucky Derby and kept him inactive for much of this spring-Ogden Phipps's Buckpasser still would be more aptly named Buckmaker. In three seasons, the four-year-old son of Tom Fool has started 28 races, won 24 and earned $1,347,744-ranking him third on the alltime moneywinning list behind Kelso ($1,977,896) and Round Table ($1,749,869). Last year Buckpasser set a world record of 1 min. 32 sec. for the mile, and ran away with the voting for Horse...
...damage" on the housing industry and "lead to an intolerable housing shortage in the years ahead." Last week in the Senate, Alabama Democrat John Sparkman's housing subcommittee resumed what promises to be a lengthy search for cures. Most of the witnesses agreed that mortgages have become the chronic invalid of finance because of structural flaws in the mortgage market. "Under present regulations of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the growth in savings and loan associations that supported home-mortgage financing is past," warned Washington Economist Robinson Newcomb. According to Newcomb, the "future looks dark" unless there...
...that Dylan could never honestly attribute his behavior to an artist's usual frustrations. He never suffered from a lack of recognition. When he was only 19, such poetic nabobs as T. S. Eliot and Stephen Spender were impressed by his published work, offering aid and encouragement. His chronic fault was that he was a wastrel-and not only in his constant pursuit of a new bed or bottle. He was recklessly profligate in everything. Some of these letters about relatively unimportant matters contain some of his best prose. Thus, in a lyrical homesick reply to Poet Margaret Taylor...