Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police, paddywagons, and moving vans evicted four families from their homes near the Harvard Business School. These four are the last of a group of eighty-five families who have been fighting for the past nine years against the plans of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to raze this low-income neighborhood and build a moderate income housing project...
This neighborhood on North Harvard Street has a history of very militant opposition to the BRA's plans to redevelop the site. In 1964, when the BRA tried to evict 85 low income families to build a high-rise luxury apartment tower, the residents fought back so bitterly that the plans for the project were scrapped...
...inadvisable" to return the property to these people, the building plans were changed to "moderate" income housing at $130 for a one bedroom apartment to $205 for a four bedroom apartment. Thirty per cent of the 212 housing units will be "low income" under a federal plan whereby residents pay 25% of their income as rent, and government subsidies cover the difference between this and the rents. This means that the original 85 low income units, with an average rent of $60 a month, will be replaced with 63 low income units and 149 moderate income units...
Harvard-Cornell games have recently been low-scoring encounters, and the Crimson was lucky to pull out a 14-12 victory when it last visited Schoelkopf Field. But the usually strong Big Red defense is somewhat porous this fall and seems equally susceptible to both ground and air attack...
...despite allegations to the contrary, is not immortal. Nikita Khrushchev, the closest thing to an eccentric the Red world has yet produced, is but dimly remembered in the day of those dreary committee types, Kosygin and Brezhnev. In America, where Richard Nixon seemingly glories in his "low profile," the bland are leading the bland. As New York's Senator Jacob Javits acidly puts it, "We may have reached a balance of mediocrity...