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...This may not sound like high-level science," says a MRDC aide, "but it's damned essential for military planners...
Since his election, the Mayor has taken several high-level steps toward meeting his promises. First, he commissioned several studies directed toward government re-organization. Mitchell Sviridoff, director of the successful New Haven anti-poverty program, proposed a drastic re-organization of New York's badly fragmented anti-poverty structure. A Human Resources Administration, which will be headed by Sviridoff himself, has been created to oversee all poverty programs; quasi-independent community corporations will be organized in poverty areas to coordinate programs at the local level...
...this may be true enough, or at least half true, but such assumptions are usually accompanied by the nostalgic and false notion that the past was better, more straightforward, more honest. The fact is that in freewheeling 19th-century America, high-level fraud was far more spectacular than today, when business, trade and politics must function under rigid controls and searching publicity. What has increased is the opportunity for the pettier kinds of cheating, largely because of the growth of communities and of population. In the urbanizing world in which crossroads are turning into shopping centers, towns into cities...
Yorty has run a scandal-free administration. His appointments, including 16 minority members (20% of all city employees are now Negro) to high-level posts, have been unassailable. He has attracted new industry to Los Angeles, engaged aerospace companies to help modernize police and sanitation operations, two weeks ago pushed through the city council his plan for a city-sponsored downtown convention center that could make Los Angeles a convention headquarters rivaling Chicago and New York. When the cause has moved him, he has also gone beyond his expressly constituted authority with noteworthy results. At Yorty's prodding...
President Johnson has appointed Robert R. Bowie, Director for the Center of International Affairs, as the State Department's counselor--a high-level policy post...