Word: hud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, he said, the first statements of Patricia R. Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have sounded favorable to the kind of changes he would like...
...spokesman for HUD yesterday declined to comment on the study, which the department has not yet seen...
...candlelit setting looked like something out of a sultan's palace. The guests at Washington's Iranian embassy, however, were not princes and potentates, but Artist Jamie Wyeth, HUD Secretary Patricia Harris, Fashion Doyenne Diana Vreeland and a hundred other partygoers invited to Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi's Valentine's Night bash. The guest of honor: Pop Artist Andy Warhol, who earlier in the day had met President Carter at the White House. "Terrific, terrific," was Warhol's response to everything, including the centerpiece on the red satin tablecloth: a 3-ft. floral heart adorned with...
...official in the mid-'60s, had made "more than my share of mistakes." Incoming Labor Secretary F. Ray Marshall revealed that he had urged an economic stimulus package with a much greater emphasis on Government support of jobs than the plan approved by Carter. Fiery Patricia Harris, HUD nominee, rebuked Senator William Proxmire for challenging her qualifications to represent the poor who need housing help. "I am a black woman," she said, "the daughter of a dining-car waiter. While there may be others who forget what it meant to be excluded from the dining rooms of this very...
...Urban League" to consider a job; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, who said he was "flattered" but was determined to run for reelection; and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who said he thought he could be more useful trying to solve Detroit's problems than in taking the HUD position...