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DIED. Gunnar Myrdal, 88, combative Nobel-prizewinning Swedish social economist whose 1944 report, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, a landmark study of U.S. race relations, was cited by the Supreme Court in its landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision (1954) that separate schools for blacks are unconstitutional; in Stockholm. In 1968 his massive ten-year study, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, maintained that land reform would wipe out Third World poverty. Myrdal was awarded a Nobel medal for economics in 1974. He and his wife Alva, who died in 1986, four...
...Landmarks Commission, after a six-month campaign by historians and a preservation group, granted landmark status to the interior of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, blocking the Jesuits' plans to convert the church to offices and sleeping quarters as part of a consolidation of the order's headquarters...
...City Council and Mayor Raymond Flynn must approve the commission's vote, a process expected to take about 30 days. Flynn and at least six members of the 13-member council are in favor of the landmark designation...
Lewis said the Jesuits likely would submit revised renovation plans to the Landmark Commission before mounting a court challenge. The revisons, however, were not welcomed by preservation supporters who were members of a mediation committee the Landmarks Commission appointed to explore a compromise...
...church exterior already is protected. It was included in the South End Landmark District designated in 1983 and also listed in 1973 as part of the South End National Register District...