Word: hud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. The grey nether world of espionage, in a masterly re-creation by Director Martin Ritt (Hud), with Richard Burton as the disillusioned British agent on a cruelly subtle mission behind the Wall. Oskar Werner is his East German quarry...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. The grey nether world of espionage, in a masterly re-creation by Director Martin Ritt (Hud) with Richard Burton as the disillusioned British agent on a cruelly subtle mission behind the Wall. Oskar Werner is his East German quarry...
Expanding Empire. The same could be said of HUD. Weaver faces the task of coordinating diffuse and disorganized federal programs ranging from sewage-disposal research (under the Public Health Service) and the location of new inner-city schools (Health, Education & Welfare) to the design and route of metropolitan freeways (Bureau of Public Roads). He has no charter to annex other agencies' territories; rather, it will be a matter of deft and exceedingly diplomatic manipulation aimed at finding some semblance of cohesiveness...
...HUD empire is certain to expand. Says Weaver: "There are certain functions which must in time be placed in the department. The problem now is to identify these and encourage the Administration to sponsor reorganization plans to bring them about." One big, politically sensitive area that will almost certainly be identified as HUD property is Sargent Shriver's poverty-oriented community action program...
Creative Federalism.The final definition of HUD's responsibilities may spring from the President's "demonstration" program for cities offered to Congress in January. It calls for a $2.3 billion, six-year pilot project aimed at encouraging broad, unified plans that will prod suburban and inner-city governments into the cooperative ventures that they have so assiduously avoided in the past. Though its initial appropriation of $12 million is scarcely enough to buy 1½ miles of Manhattan subway, the program at last-and at least-recognizes that the metropolitan crisis demands a coordinated, scientific approach to quicken civic...