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...Morris Milgram, a product of New York's Lower East Side and an ar dent tilter at the windmills of social injustice, announced plans for a 51-home development in Deerfield. Milgram is in the business of building houses-and his passion is building them for both Negroes and whites...
Project 99. While OEA can do an effective job in small arenas, it cannot make a significant dent in such massive dislocations as the shift of defense contracts from the Midwest to the West. In search of ways to help smooth out the bigger economic bumps, McNamara ordered a study of the factors that account for the heavy concentration of Pentagon research and development contracts in a few university-rich areas-such as the Boston region, drawing upon Harvard and M.I.T., and the Southern California complex, centering around Caltech and U.C.L.A. Assigned to the Stanford Research Institute, the study...
Last week, with a large dent in his forehead, gaunt, balding Grimau heard a seven-man military court tick off the charges against him; they ranged from "continuing military rebellion" to arson, torture and execution of anti-Republicans by the Chekas 25 years ago. The maximum penalty was death. Did he care to say something before sentence was passed? "Only this," replied Grimau. "Since 1936, I have lived the life of a Communist. I will die a Communist...
...holes, but he lacked capital to buy more land. To the rescue came that openhanded giant, the federal Agriculture Department. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman has adopted a policy of helping marginal family farmers convert some of their land to recreation uses. That approach, Freeman hopes, will both make a dent in farm surpluses and enable some poor farmers to earn a better living. Congress has obliged by broadening the lending authority of the Farmers Home Administration. When Hamrick read about that in a local paper, he sent in an application, got the very first loan guarantee granted under...
...called white-collar workers have for the first time passed in number the lunch pail-carrying blue-collar men, who are the backbone of unionism (see chart). Since white-collar workers historically identify themselves with management, they are hard to organize-and the unions have made only the smallest dent in their ranks...