Word: mca
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...Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recognized the seriousness of Cambridge's difficulties and approved the formation of the Cambridge Model Cities Association (MCA). HUD approved Cambridge neighborhoods three and four as the demonstration area to receive federal funds. Cambridge Street and Mass Ave bound the area on the north and south; Portland Street and the B&A railroad form the western and eastern boundaries...
...Cambridge MCA formed a policy board of 24 members to determine the allocation of funds. The board included eight appointed professionals from city government and universities, and eight elected members from each of the two demonstration neighborhoods. Members were to serve two-year terms...
...MCA scheduled the first election for June 1968. Francis Hayes, one of the victorious candidates and presently executive director of MCA, recalls the phenomenal interest and enthusiasm of the candidates and area residents. "People campaigned. There were speeches and parades...Five thousand people voted (out of a 16,000 total population). A few people bound the ballots in red ribbons and bows and brought them to the city council to show them how high a turnout...
Although most MCAs no longer receive federal funds, HUD renewed the grant of the Cambridge MCA for 1974 on the basis of its successful record. These funds, however, total only $303,00, just twenty per cent of HUD's grants in each of the first five years...
...only two other lawyers. By 1970 the number of attorneys had jumped to 14, and by 1973 to 24. Suddenly major clients from all over the nation were eager to sign up with the attorney who represented the President: United Air Lines, Dart Industries Inc., the Marriott Corp., MCA Inc. (the dominant producer of prime-time TV shows). National companies traditionally seek out lawyers who have friends and clients in high places in Washington, and Kalmbach's were very high indeed...