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...homes and apartments for low-and middle-income families in the next decade, more than ten times the number of such units built in the past decade under federal programs. In hopeful theory at least, the plan should eliminate all substandard housing in the nation. If Congress approves, the construction of 6,000,000 of the homes and apartments would be subsidized directly by the Government for low-income families over the next ten years. In the first year, 300,000 homes would be built, and for the first time, 100,000 needy families would be given a chance...
...interest and the energy to work for McCarthy is rampant at Harvard, but Young Dems members have been forced to seek channels outside the organization. If the club's leaders--whoever they may be--could construct a cohesive campaign program, it might reattract those in self-exile from the Democratic Party at Harvard...
...baggage handling and other services, Heathrow should be able to cope with some 900 travelers every 15 minutes, according to the plans. To speed up the trip to the center of London, which now takes about 45 minutes and $10 in unmetered cab fare, British Rail is going to construct a line between Victoria Station and an underground stop at Heathrow. Without such a rail link, experts have predicted, the disembarking passengers from each of the new jets would create a traffic jam one mile long...
After intense effort, the cryptanalysts arrived at a good pencil-and-paper analogue of the Purple Code. That was only the beginning. From there they went on to construct their own model of Japan's encoding machine, which "spewed sparks and made loud whirring noises," but worked...
...Nichols and his two writers can't handle the ambitious and complicated issues they raise, and sideswipe their own construct at the halfway mark. The Graduate rapidly degenerates into frenetic melodramatics, ending in the all-too-frequent last minute chase, a triumph of love-over-everything guaranteed to warm even the hearts of a Brattle Theatre audience during the Bogart festival. Safe in the back of a bus from the irate witnesses to their elopement, Benjamin and Elaine stop grinning and stare ahead, each considering for the first time the seriousness of their act and the problems ahead; Nichols' muting...