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...purpose of the new town." The breadth of the corporational mandate usually alienates local politicians. They resent the intrusion of highly educated administrators and architects into their districts. And since the corporation must consult local authorities at each planning stage, fierce fights often occur. For example at Hemel Hempstead the local residents brought the Ministry into court because they felt the corporation was ignoring their desires...
Dumped In Hempstead...
...Hempstead, N.Y., thinks that it can solve its water problems by desalting sea water with heat produced by burning rubbish in a "clean" incinerator, while Bergen County, N.J., plans to use its garbage to heat a community sports center. New York City's commissioner of air-pollution control, Austin Heller, reckons that if air-pollution could be prevented, the city could generate 25% to 50% of all the electricity it needs with garbage-fueled furnaces, thus possibly paying part of the cost of collection. After a tour of Europe, where garbage technology is years ahead of the U.S., three...
...James K. Glassman '69 of Quincy House and Chevy Chase, Md., News Editor; Joel R. Kramer '69 of Eliot House and Glen Oaks, N.Y., News Editor; W. Bruce Springer '69 of Leverett House and Shawnee Mission, Kansas, News Editor; Charles F. Sabel '69 of Eliot House and West Hempstead, New York, Editorial Editor; John D. Reed Jr. '69 of Eliot House and Lincoln, Editorial Features Editor; James M. Lardner '69 of Adams House and New York City, Book Editor; Jeffrey C. Alexander '69 of Lowell House and Los Angeles, Assistant Features Editor; Richard R. Edmonds '69 of Lowell House...
Tawdry Test. Last week the New York Court of Appeals faced all those possibilities in a significant decision rejecting retroactivity. Appellant Charlie Mae McQueen, 50, a domestic with an estimated IQ of 84, was arrested after a laborer was found stabbed to death in Hempstead, N.Y. Given a 20-year-to.-life sentence in 1964, Miss McQueen appealed on three grounds: >The police violated her right to counsel at the station house when they barred her daughter-her only "counsel." > The police coerced her confession by not telling her that her victim was dead -and falsely claiming that he would...