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...bibliography. Despite the glib slogans--"planning for people," "urban renewal without human renewal cannot work"--the problems of poverty and discrimination rest in a stratosphere of generality. The New Boston's designers outline a series of thoroughly acceptable and thoroughly unoriginal goals: "Break down discriminatory barriers that waste talent, inhibit motivation, limit educational achievement..." or "Eliminate adult illiteracy." Very nice. Very necessary. But never do they say how these are to be accomplished...

Author: By Robert F. Wagner jr., | Title: The New Bostonians and Their Poverty | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

Interdict & Inhibit. Rusk went on to say, "Were the insurgency in South Viet Nam truly indigenous and self-sustained, international law would not be involved. But the fact is that it receives vital external support-in organization and direction, in training, in men, in weapons and other supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Frank Talk to the Gullible | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...assistance has been increased because the aggression from the north has been augmented. Our assistance now encompasses the bombing of North Viet Nam. The bombing is designed to interdict, as far as possible, and to inhibit, as far as necessary, continued aggression against the Republic of Viet Nam. When that aggression ceases, collective measures in defense against it will cease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Frank Talk to the Gullible | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...after several weeks of deliberation and contemplation, decided not to. Peter Weiner, president of the YD's, explained that he had doubts about the project. Had the preselected communities been adequately researched by the SCLC staff? Was there a danger that massive Northern participation would smother or inhibit local initiative? And, undoubtedly, Weiner was reluctant to throw his organization into the factional strief of the civil rights movement: many YD's belong to SNCC, and SNCC takes a dim, or at least cautious view of this SCLC undertaking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Civil Rights Muddle | 4/29/1965 | See Source »

...quality, because "a fund raiser should be at various times a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a marriage counselor, and even a sort of family doctor. You have to know the family situation at all times. Divorce, illness, death-or just a routine change in the family financial situation-can inhibit contribution." Buff even consults astrology on occasion. She is not a blind believer, but she is sufficiently impressed with it to run an astrological chart on every major prospect before she approaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Brightness in the Air | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

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