Word: council
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation was a difficult one. On one hand, the housing shortages were getting worse, yet on the other, neighbors would probably fight to the death-in the City Council, and perhaps even in the courts-against a proposal which would bring lowerincome Cambridge residents into the neighborhood around Shady Hill. Caught in the middle, Edward S. Gruson, Pusey's new assistant for Community Affairs, and other Harvard planning officials took the srinplest course: they split the difference between the 150 units Harvard was going to build and the 500 units the GSD asked, and began to develop plans...
...yesterday's City Council meeting, Vellucci introduced a resolution asking the Board of Assessors to compile a list of all the properties-tax-exempt and tax-paying-which Harvard owns in Cambridge, and to total up the amount of taxes and in-lien-of-tax payments the University pays to the City. The council unanimously passed the resolution after Vellucci amended it to include M.I.T. and Radcliffe...
...East Cambridge Councillor also indicated he would invite-subpoena if legally possible-the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers to attend a council meeting for discussion of the matter. "You know. I've never seen them," Vellucci said. "I'd like to see what they look like...
...Trustees are concerned with the overall operation and continuity of the Center." said Jones. "They will handle the financial and legal matters." Tom Atkins, Boston city councillor. Attorney Henry F. Owens, candidate for the Boston City Council, and Mrs. Muriel Snowden, head of Freedom House in Roxbury, are members of this group...
...head of the council, he also made a lasting impression on the Vice President, Richard Nixon. Burns left in 1956 to become president of the privately endowed National Bureau of Economic Research, but continued as Nixon's personal economic adviser. Last winter, just before being named Special Counsellor to the President, he suggested that the tax increases and spending cuts then contemplated would not be enough to contain inflation. Once ensconced in the White House, he optimistically judged in April that it would be reasonable to expect the Administration to bring the rate of inflation down...