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PAUL H. LAMPORT Councilman, 13th District Los Angeles...
...Manhattan's polyglot 19th District, Democrat Leonard Farbstein, a moderate on the war, seeks nomination for a sixth term but faces a rough scrap with City Councilman Theodore Weiss, who demands an end to all bombing in Viet Nam and a U.S. ceasefire...
Even with the new laws, it will obviously be several years before New Yorkers can begin to breathe easily again. "What we're doing is racing to stand still," says Caroline Konheim of the Citizens for Clean Air. Besides, says Councilman Robert Low, who sponsored the new city bill, "once we get New York cleaned up, we'll just begin to realize how bad New Jersey smells...
...planning took about six weeks, and what started as a small group of 10 men turned into a nebulous affair involving suddenly revived organizations dedicated to desenvolviment das ruas (street development), an unlimited supply of idea men, well-wishers, and skeptics, and the prompt attention of an incumbent councilman running for re-election who arrived with trucks and work crews and began spreading sand with a flourish...
...project proceeded and was eventually completed as the dozer came to level the road, and the councilman came to dump two truckloads of sand for the workers to spread and tamp. The drained mud dried in the sun and was covered with sand and urban community development gained another adherent. Sunday came to a close. The workers congratulated themselves on a job well done, the councilman busily shook hands, and the Peace Corps Volunteers went for a beer...