Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boston City Councillor Tom Atkins 2L has organized almost 100 area graduate students and professors into eight advisory task forces to investigate local urban problems...
Under the supervision and co-ordination of Charles Nesson, assistant professor of Law, the study groups and their various subdivisions follow a three-step approach. After evaluating a situation by gathering data, they appraise the local, state, and federal resources available for solutions. Finally, the committees present a specific proposal which Atkins can bring before the Council...
...Open housing ought to be a local matter," he says. "That's exactly what I said in my campaign, and I even said it directly to the Crusade for Voters." The Crusade is a powerful Negro political organization, whose energetic support was invaluable to win the primary. Spong's supporters use incidents like this to illustrate his remarkable candor. His desire to "tell people the truth about these things" has also led him to disclose publicly the sources of his campaign financing and his personal assets...
...urged the creation of a National Housing Partnership of major firms that are not now in the building industry. Because of its large size, the National Partnership could reduce costs by standardizing construction plans and making massive purchases, and at the same time serve as a central clearinghouse for local developments...
...meantime, until these returning people take up the slack, the school faces lean times. Sisson places no hope in local draft boards, which, he believes, "have absolutely no more autonomy," and he feels the GSAS must resign itself to a loss of up to one million dollars next year...