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...them find the city a strange and unfriendly place. They long for the hill country, talk of returning to it as soon as they have saved a chunk of money to start anew. "I don't believe Appalachian whites ever get to like the city," says Bernard S. Houghton, director of Cleveland's West Side Community House. "It's simply wages that bring them here. They never get out of the hills." Asked to take part in any community affairs, the mountaineers almost invariably refuse, arguing that they do not intend to be around long...
Several buildings will have to be demolished to make way for the $3 to 10 million project. Sert said that many of the new apartments will overlook the river and that the entire complex will be built as far from the Houghton School on Putnam Ave. as possible...
...Houghton, Mich., dentist, Ferries has been swooshing down snow-covered slopes ever since he was five. "We lived on a hill overlooking the town," he remembers. "It wasn't much of a mountain-just a ridge with a 400-ft. vertical drop. But grandma lived in town, and I used to ski downhill to pick up goodies." Still only a part-time skier, Ferries was good enough at 14 to place ninth in the slalom at the U.S. junior championships. In 1957 he packed off to Aspen, Colo., to polish his technique. He improved so quickly that he decided...
...BEGAN IN BABEL (444 pp.)-Herbert Wendt-Houghton Mifflin...
...answer an obvious question about these figures, note that they do not include the annual operating budgets for Widener and Houghton Libraries ($2,100,000); but they exclude also the Cambridge Electron Accelerator ($2,600,000), the Observatory ($1,200,000), Museum of Comparative Zoology and Peabody ($870,000), the various social science centers and, in fact, all other institutions that do not show up on Departmental budgets. If these expenses are taken into consideration, the share of Federal funds available to the humanistic scholar gets even smaller. Moreover, the total departmental funds available to the average scientists and social...