Word: hud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most breakfasts produce at least ideas and occasionally major stories. HUD Secretary George Romney laid his housing program, Operation Breakthrough, on the Sperling table. Equally memorable are the breakfasts at which Spiro Agnew said Humphrey was soft on Communism and Bobby Kennedy agonized over whether to seek the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination...
...more modern methods of construction. To foster such progress, the department sponsored a competition, called "Operation Breakthrough." Last week, months behind his original schedule, Romney picked 22 companies to build 2,000 mass-produced houses and apartments in ten cities. The winners, chosen from among 236 proposals, will share HUD contracts that may total as much as $50 million and will also invest some $40 million of their own money...
Tonight's panel will discuss model cities and will feature Ralph Taylor, former assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, as speakers...
...opening shot of the sun on the horizon is reminiscent of John Ford and the parallels do not stop there. Director Martin Ritt (Hud) and writer Walter Bernstein are as successful as Ford in exploring and defining Irish tradition and character. A comparison with The Informer is also illuminating: the informer in Ford's film is primitive and worthy of pity: the informer in The Molly Maguires is a conscious human being and deserves our contempt...
...interested in any rather mundane use such as HUD office buildings," Sullivan said. "We want the buildings to be used either as the economic generator they were intended for, or to be tax producing...