Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayor quickly let it be known that change would continue-with a difference. All the renewal projects started by Collins would be completed, but the emphasis in future would be shifted from big downtown building schemes to less visible, but no less important, housing and neighborhood-improvement programs. As proof of his efforts, he announced this month that he had persuaded Boston banks, insurance companies and industries to invest $56 million in depressed neighborhoods. Some $50 million will be in loans to finance rehabilitation and construction of low-income housing units, while the remaining $6,000,000 will be seed...
...about a month ago in Washington, D.C., the couple canceled their plans for a mammoth reception because of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination. Now the newlyweds have little time for honeymooning. Miriam went to South America for a monthlong concert tour; Stokely holed up in Washington and let the world know that Black Power machinations and marriage were not mutually exclusive pursuits. "My wife," he said, "has already been a freedom fighter...
...first successful combat tests of the "starlight scope"-one of the prying electronic gadgets developed by the Defense Department "to take the night away from Charlie." Lieut. Hibbs was well briefed on the scope's importance; though mortally wounded, he smashed it against a tree rather than let it fall into the hands of the enemy. He won a posthumous Medal of Honor for his performance on that night patrol. Since then, thousands of starlight scopes have been shipped to Viet Nam; jungle-wise infantrymen are so impressed by their versatility that they use almost any G.I. dodge...
...unreasonable delay between arrest and arraignment. Such attacks on the court are not yet assured, however. The bill must now go to a Senate-House conference committee chaired by New York Representative Emanuel Celler, and Celler last week insisted that he would rather see the whole bill die than let the anti-court amendments survive...
...real movie, even though Actress Gael looks anything but a schoolgirl with her eyeliner and bottle-blonde tartiness. But Essy Persson, the woman in Woman, does manage a plausible interpretation of a troubled teenager, and Metzger has taken enough pain's with his brooding photography to let at least some of the spectators kid themselves into believing that they have come to an art house to see some...