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Velikovksy, who had practiced psychoanalysis before studying the history of man and the cosmos, first introduced himself to the physical science community when he sought out Professor Harlow Shapley, then director of the Harvard Observatory, to gain comment on and an evaluation of his concept of cataclysmic history. Shapley refused to read it. Despite his ignorance of Velikovsky's detailed arguments, Shapley nevertheless felt sufficiently informed to tell a colleague--who had read Velikovsky's work--that Velikovsky's conclusions were "pretty obviously based on incompetent data." When MacMillan published Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision in 1950, Shapley...
Maria Mantzaris, a tenant in a building owned by the city's largest landlord and most ambitious converter Harlow Properties, testified at a city council hearing that she paid only $92 a month rent because Harlow Properties refuses to correct the building's numerous safety and sanitary code violations. Harlow Properties has scheduled the building in which she lives for conversion...
William Walsh, attorney for Harlow Properties and several other major Cambridge landlords, said last week that the Harlow family has sent letters to all of its tenants urging them to vote for anti-rent control candidates David Sullivan, a CC '77 council candidate, says the feelings of Harlow's tenants are such that this letter would only encourage them further to vote for pro-rent control candidates...
There were 197 conversions out of the city's 36,000 housing units in the first nine months of 1977, but the city's threat to rent control by conversion is seen much more as a potential than as a current phenomenon. Harlow Properties plans to convert all 500 of its housing units and has only been prevented by a marketing study that urged a delay in order to prevent a glut. Unchecked, the conversions will whittle away at the supply of available low and middle income housing. The elderly in Cambridge are especially vulnerable, as most live on fixed...
...Harlow B. Amsbary Bloomington...