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...ambiance febrile et joyeuse de mai meme les minettes du 16eme aident a la construction des barricades; a la colere, et a la passion anti-gouvernementale se mele un desir incoherent de participer au defi solidaire de la jeunesse. Derriere la naivete du celebre "J'ai quelque chose a dire mais je ne sais pas quoi" se trouve un besoin inarticule de s'unir aux autres, de s'echapper d'un anonymat individuel. "Le graffiti en soi devenait liberte," nous explique Besancon dans la preface...
...John Shakspere," was baptized in 1564 in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford, England. In 1616, the famous son was buried in that same small church-which makes it all the sadder that today Stratford's Holy Trinity Church is a dilapidated ruin in dire need of restoration before it crumbles to the ground. Now to the rescue comes a group of Shakespeare devotees who have organized a $480,000 fund-raising drive to finance repairs. Said Sir Michael Redgrave, one of the leaders of the appeal: "Surely the need is self-evident. This church, this grave...
...Berkeley, at least, all the dire predictions about the adverse effects of bus sing have not come true. Sullivan was warned that the program would turn Berkeley into a black city; instead, white enrollment in the schools actually rose during the past three years, reversing a 20-year trend. He says that this has happened because the schools provide "something exciting at the end of the bus ride" in the form of better education. He has introduced smaller classes, more guidance counselors for troubled students, sophisticated audio-visual aids. A study by the California legislature last year showed that Berkeley...
...important, Lowell K. Bridwell, the new Federal Highway Commissioner, was beginning to take another look at how the U.S. Government builds its roads, to see if some medicine could be found to heal the social scars they left on communities. Cambridge, which had protested long and loud about the dire effects of the Belt, was an ideal place to try a new approach. So Bridwell last February held up final approval of the Belt, pending a new, two year study of the road...
...city government has been reorganized to follow the simpler federal outline, and advanced techniques of systems analysis are being applied to bureaucratic procedures that had not changed by more than a jot in a century. Still in dire need of money, the city's budget has been brought in line with income. Thanks to Wagner's custom of floating long-term loans to pay current operating expenses, New York had "rainy...