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...choice of whether it wanted to use the liberated space as a playground for children or as a postage-stamp park for adults. House owners were given expert advice and help in floating loans and making repairs and improvements. The result has been dramatic. "Harlem Park is no Georgetown," says Richard L. Steiner, director of the Baltimore Renewal and Housing Agency. "Generally speaking, these are still poor people. But there is a great change. In the past it was an area for a person to get out of, if he could afford it. Now it's a place to stay...
...Cadets and Midshipmen are both 7-1 on the season, with losses to Syracuse and Georgetown respectively. On the basis of the Providence scores, Navy appears a little stronger, but that statistical margin is far too small to give the Midshipmen the undisputed role of favorite in today's meet...
Straw Men. De Paul's innovation is probably the most significant attempt to overhaul Catholic philosophy teaching in the U.S. since 1789, when Georgetown, the nation's first Catholic university, opened its doors. Kreyche, 37, bravely prepared the change last year. In three hard-hitting speeches to Catholic educators, he derided "closed-system Thomists who still shadowbox the ghosts of the 13th century," insisted that new times demand a new approach to philosophical problems. Reasoned Kreyche: "St. Thomas himself, many of whose views were condemned after his death, would be appalled at the blind way we shamble...
Died. Mary Pinchot Meyer, 43, Washington abstract artist and niece of Pennsylvania's late Governor Gifford Pinchot; of bullet wounds in the head and chest inflicted by an unsuccessful robber, while she was taking a stroll along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath near her Georgetown studio...
...content to rely on secondhand reports, the Commission determined to investigate everything afresh. Earl Warren interviewed Jacqueline Kennedy in her Georgetown home and Jack Ruby in his Dallas jail (Ruby called him "Earl"). Every member of the Commission flew to Dallas one or more times, painstakingly retraced the movements that Oswald was known to have made on Nov. 22. They visited the rooming house where he lived, the theater where he was captured, the jail basement where he was shot. At the Texas School Book Depository building, each one went to the sixth-floor spot where Oswald had stood, shouldered...