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...HHFA Director, Weaver followed an essentially inner-city-directed policy rather than attempting to deal with the metropolis as an entity. That approach has attracted criticism. Argues Harvard Business School Economist Raymond Vernon: "To talk about rebuild ing central cities for re-use by people there now is a good political move and a bad social one. Our Eastern cities were built around 1800. What a remarkable coincidence it would be if the density established for those patterns of life happened to be right for 1965!" To such barbs, Weaver retorts frostily: "I'm all for letting people...
...going on these days at his alma mater, the University of Louvain. In his day, the school's common language was Latin. Now the university is split into French-speaking and Flemish-speaking halves, and the division is so bitter that the two halves are not talk ing to each other...
DuBay insists that he is not challeng ing the right of bishops to rule, but merely seeking to restore a lost balance in the church between discipline and freedom. "The union is one way that the church can apply its social teachings to itself," he says. The proposal does point up the fact that the parish priest is underprivileged in rights and rewards...
...midsummer eve in a Negro-ghetto backyard in Detroit, Diana Ross, then 14, Mary Wilson, 14, and Florence Ballard, 15, made their first profession al appearance. They sang Your Cheat ing Heart, and afterward they passed the hat. The take: "Darn near $3," says Diana's mother. Last week at Manhattan's Copacabana, home range of the big names (Sinatra, Dean Martin), where the big beat is seldom heard, the same rock-'n'-roll trio was doing turn-away business. Diana, Mary and Florence now call themselves the Supremes, and the take...
...collapsible steering column that will help protect drivers from be ing impaled in a collision, and inde pendent front and rear brakes, each capable of stopping the car if the other fails. American Motors, which already provides dual brakes as a standard item, plans to buy the collapsible columns from G.M. and install them in all its 1967 cars. Ford and Chrysler will carry their own versions of the column in their 1967 models...