Word: cra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ONLY LIVE TWICE. Sean Connery is back as Agent 007, this time blowing up a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. haunt hidden in the cra ter of a Japanese volcano. But the Bonds -which have grossed $125 million to date -are beginning to tarnish a bit around their gilt edges...
Officials of the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA) officially agreed transfer 29 acres in Kendall Square SASA for the laboratory. The area acquired by Cambridge under urban renewal laws, and for the past several months, the CRA has been demolishing building on part of the site...
...resolution, approved by a 6-3 vote, grants funds to the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority to restudy the section of East Cambridge known as the Donnelly Field area. The CRA will then submit to the Council "a revised tentative plan" for urban redevelopment...
...future projects, the CRA (or any equivalent group must be sensitive enough to realize that the so called human problems of renewal are important. In other words, good public relations is crucial in order to make urban renewal work. The CRA was beaten last spring because it had no support from Donnelly, Cambridge neighborhood organizations, churches or the influential League of Women Voters...
Donnelly did not believe the City's strongest argument for renewal: neighborhood improvement. The municipal government itself rarely prosecutes infraction of zoning and building codes in a city full of infractions. An already messy Cambridge made it difficult for the CRA to consider providing Federal second mortgages to homes in Donnelly so that owners could improve them to meet existing municipal ordinances. But the CRA gave this alternative no consideration, even though provision for such mortgages is an important section of the Housing Act of 1954 under which the Authority worked. The prospect of spanking new buildings is exciting...