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They were-and so was a lunch with 400 civic boosters. Their aim: to make Haverhill the site of a $375 million AEC atom-smashing accelerator and so gain 2,000 new jobs, 10,000 new residents and a $16 million-a-year payroll. Haverhill, one among 148 locations considered by AEC, is no longer in the running, but six other communities, from Sacramento, Calif., to Brookhaven, N.Y., are still battling for that plum with offers of free land, improved schools, and even tax-subsidized power expansion. Their skirmishing is part of an increasingly competitive struggle among states and cities...
...Burgenland province. Ahead was the Hungarian border, where watchtowers still stand and electrified wire keeps passportless citizens from leaving. Waved past the border gate, the bus braked to a stop in front of the customs house that marks the Hungarian town of Hegeyshalom. Out stepped 45 inquisitive Americans-businessmen, civic leaders, journalists-about to start on an eleven-day journey through five Eastern European capitals...
When the bus resumed its trip from Vienna to Budapest, TIME'S third overseas news tour was officially under way. In 1963 another group of U.S. business and civic leaders had traveled through Western Europe and Russia. Last year a contingent went to six Southeast Asian countries. TIME'S aim in setting up these trips is to provide leading American businessmen with a direct experience of a major foreign area. To the trade-hungry Communists of Eastern Europe, the latest tour looked like a possible answer to their economic woes, but the U.S. group was far from...
...terrible in Cambridg that the City might well take the Sachs Estate for this purpose. Many people believe the University is under moral as well as political pressure to develop housing on the Sachs Estate as soon as possible. Charles P. Whitlock Assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Relations
Cambridge City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci moved yesterday that Harvard transfer the name from square to mall. Vellucci knew Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Affairs, was in the audience prepared to grant the request immediately for Harvard...