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...circumvent any charges of discrimination and racism (so blatantly displayed in the third world panel) there were two black women panelists (out of almost 50 speakers) and one black ex-Undersecretary of HUD. But not a single white woman speaker could be found--although the GSD has educated women for 30 years--mostly white. The GSD has been investigated by the Civil Rights Office of HEW with resulting recommendations to make massive changes in its prevailing discriminatory practices. Recently the National Organization for Women has filed another complaint against the whole University where the endlessly delayed Affirmative Action Program...
...future Ford Administration Cabinet. While admitting the article's accuracy, Ford said that he thought the conversation was off the record. Ford would keep Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State, according to Osborne. He would also retain Secretary of Labor Peter Brennan, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and HUD Secretary James Lynn. He is undecided about others, especially Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger. Ford fears that Schlesinger would not be effective in dealing with Congress...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recognized the seriousness of Cambridge's difficulties and approved the formation of the Cambridge Model Cities Association (MCA). HUD approved Cambridge neighborhoods three and four as the demonstration area to receive federal funds. Cambridge Street and Mass Ave bound the area on the north and south; Portland Street and the B&A railroad form the western and eastern boundaries...
...early 1968 HUD gave the city its first of five annual $1,500,000 grants to "carry out coordinated physical and social renewal programs to improve the general welfare" of area residents, Characteristic of many Great Society programs, HUD stipulated that "Model Cities plans must, if they are to receive federal support, emanate from the ideas of residents as well as the work of professionals; from the involvement of public as well as involvement of private groups...
Although most MCAs no longer receive federal funds, HUD renewed the grant of the Cambridge MCA for 1974 on the basis of its successful record. These funds, however, total only $303,00, just twenty per cent of HUD's grants in each of the first five years...