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...report, filed last month, the Board advised the city to prepare a plan for urban renewal in the Harvard Square area and then to take the Yards by right of eminent domain. Although this is not possible while the MTA owns the land, the city could take the property from a private owner once the MTA has sold...
...horrified. Home owners moved fast, voted overwhelming approval of a $500,000 bond issue for new city parks-laid out, as it just so happened, to include the 22 acres Milgram had bought for his development. Milgram refused to sell, so city officials applied their power of eminent domain and condemned his land. The reason for all this was clear...
Milgram sued, claiming that the city had violated the 14th Amendment by grabbing up land meant for integrated homes. The Illinois Supreme Court heard the case, turned Milgram down, saying: "The power of eminent domain cannot be made to depend upon the peculiar social, racial, religious or political predilections of either the condemning authority or the affected property owner." Milgram's attorney appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Freeman has a bulky domain to administer. Its budget, about $7 billion a year, is more than twice the combined expenditures of the Commerce, Interior, Justice, Labor and State departments. As of last January, a relatively slack time for Agriculture, the department had on the payroll 96,104 employees. Of these, only 11,807 were stationed in the District of Columbia and environs. The remaining 84,297 were scattered among thousands of outposts in the 50 states and numerous foreign countries. The number of farms and farmers in the U.S. keeps declining year after year-but the number of Agriculture...
Eliot House, a large Georgian polygon bordered by Boyston St. and Memorial Drive, has the best formed image of any Harvard house. Supposedly the domain of "Preppies," the House appears somewhat exclusive and detached from the rest of the University. This detachment is enhanced by its location; with the exception of Dunster, Eliot is farther away from the Yard than any other House. Built around a small courtyard which is used as an athletic field in the fall and winter, the House is composed of converted doubles intermixed with larger complexes. Master Finley has created a number of consolidated suites...