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...Having participated in "The Thing in the Spring [April 26]" I am now absolutely certain that white people cannot hide a slum with a coat of paint-even if the suburbanites are the painters. The poor need low-cost housing-white America cannot paint that fact away...
Sert blamed this country's outmoded zoning laws and federal legislation for hindering progress in design of low-cost living units. "The United States is one of the most backward countries in the world in low-cost housing," he said...
...callers would be noted. Once, following up a chance remark of the President's, he ordered a wall built between the Executive Office Building and the White House to block the vision of nosy reporters. That project was canceled, but Watson did succeed in barring reporters from the low-cost Executive Office Building cafeteria and in restricting their access to E.O.B. officials...
...concentrates in a few that produce marketable minerals-Middle Eastern oil, Latin-American metals. The developing countries are in a squeeze because they depend on the U.S. and other rich nations for 20% of their capital, need hard currencies to buy machines and other capital to build schools, low-cost housing, telephone systems, roads and other all-important "infrastructures" that are slow to show profits. The dilemma: countries often need infrastructure to attract capital, but cannot develop it without large amounts of capital...
...could be traced to the fact that it had decided to write off its entire inventory of obsolescent machines and concentrate on a new copier called the Super-Stat. President Clayton Rautbord, 40, also increased his company's sales force. The payoff has been handsome. A compact, relatively low-cost ($985) machine, the Super-Stat has caught on where the company's earlier dry-process copiers foundered. Last week Rautbord announced record 1967 sales of $35,618,000. Even more important was the black ink-a profit...