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...petition protests the 125-year-old building's future destruction, stating it will mean the loss of much-needed low-cost housing, and the addition of one more restaurant in already congested Central Square...
...Manpower training and public-service-employment programs could cut the jobless rate without producing ruinous inflation. Prices could be held down somewhat by repealing such measures as the Fair Trade acts, which set retail price floors under certain products, and the Jones Act, which prevents U.S. shippers from using low-cost foreign vessels between two U.S. ports. Cost-of-living escalator clauses in labor contracts and the Social Security Act could keep incomes ahead of price boosts. Even so, the more economists try to be realistic in talking about the depressing prospects for unemployment and inflation, the more they look...
Those who elected the radicals to the Berkeley City Council had a vision. "What we want is more room to build a revolutionary society," said one student, "a society with more equitable tax distribution, with stricter rent controls, with new low-cost housing, with more parks and child-care centers." Yet, two-and-a-half years after the initiation of the radical experiment, the vision is gone. Berkeley remains the same. And so does Cambridge. Here the vision extends no further than a reading cubicle in Lamont Library
...wide variety of issues. To name just a few: the need for city day-care centers, replacement of property and sales taxes with a progressive income tax, rent control, a referendum on the as yet unexpected 18-year-old vote, a Vietnam peace initiative, the construction of low-cost housing, a city affirmative action program, stricter antipollution legislation, prosecution of war researchers at the university, the elimination of sexist books from school libraries, guaranteed adequate severance pay to workers in firms leaving Berkeley to escape unionization, the construction of bicycle paths, youth hostels and more parks, and even the addition...
Ferry's plan called for low-cost rooms and communal bathrooms to be built in the extension, making Winthrop a long, curved building with four wings jutting toward the river...