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Stop the Clock. Hailing the French attitude, Italian Foreign Minister Pietro Nenni called for quick approval of any British application. In The Hague, Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns, whose country for the next six months will hold the rotating chairmanship of the EEC's Council of Ministers, said that he would immediately seek from the Six a declaration of intent "to enlarge the Community." "Things are on the move now," Luns reported to the Dutch Cabinet...
...blacks tried for greater in fluence within the United Church of Christ at its biennial assembly in Boston, promoting a Negro pastor for the presidency of the 2,000,000-member denomination and pressing for fuller representation on all committees. In Detroit, representatives of the National Black Economic Development Council met with the executive council of the Episcopal diocese of Michigan to present their demands for reparations for "centuries of oppression." In the long run, though, one of the most significant attempts to give spiritual sanction to the Black Power movement may have occurred last month in Atlanta, where...
...past, a barrier to using renewal tools has been the justifiable suspicion on the part of the community of urban renewal being used "on" them. If we are to take advantage of renewal, we must wipe out these suspicions. I therefore recommend that the council adopt as a matter of public policy a procedure which will allow the approval of residential renewal projects only after a policy committee, composed solely of residents of the project areas, with full veto powers over the plans, approves those plans. It is in this manner, and only in this manner that we can establish...
...opinion requested on the ordinance by the City Council, Cambridge City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin '53 stated, "It is my opinion that these and other problems which have arisen from excessive amplification of music at Cambridge common can best be regulated by an existing law...which imposes a jail term of not more than six months or a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or both for disturbing the peace...
James Parry, a representative of the Cambridge Common Concert Committee, told the council a study had shown that the excessive noise from the concerts residents of buildings near the Common had complained about was primarily due to acoustic peculiarities of the buildings...