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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of the City's complicated Proportional Representation electoral system, the final election results will not be determined for several days. The Cambridge Election Commission will begin counting the ballots on Wednesday morning.

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Major Cities Vote Today | 11/4/1969 | See Source »

The National Commission on Urban Problems, headed by former Senator Paul Douglas, has castigated urban renewal as "a failure quite irrelevant to the housing needs of the poor." Some projects have turned into slums as squalid as the shanties that they replaced. St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe project, hailed as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: WHY HOUSING COSTS ARE GOING THROUGH THE ROOF | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Almost a celebrity in the profession of labor mediation, Dunlop receives constant invitations to mediate disputes all over the country. He specializes in "hot-tempered" industries such as construction and transportation which suffer frequent labor crises. The Secretary of Labor or the Governor of New York may ring him several...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Profile John Dunlop | 10/29/1969 | See Source »

In February, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered P. F. Collier, Inc., to stop its "lengthy and blatant use of deception" in selling the encyclopedia. The FTC had studied the case for-nine years before making its decision.

Author: By David N. Hollander, | Title: The Almost Free Encyclopedia | 10/28/1969 | See Source »

THE NADER REPORT OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION by Edward F. Cox, Robert C. Fellmeth and John E. Schulz. 230 pages. Baron. $5.95. A tell-it-like-it-is indictment of one of Washington's most slovenly agencies. One can only hope that, like the Hardy boys, Ralph Nader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Week: The Literary Overflow | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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