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Conversion of rental units displaced so many moderate-and lower-income tenants in Brookline, Mass., that the city last year declared a moratorium on evictions of tenants who refuse to buy. To critics who argue that such conversions are driving out the cash-shy old and young, realtors respond rather unpersuasively that condos and co-ops have stabilized neighborhoods and kept them up by giving the middle class the advantages and responsibilities of ownership. But the big switch to apartment ownership will make it harder for many Americans to find apartments at prices they can afford...
...doctors have thus far been stalled in undertaking similar research under what amounts to a five-year-old federal moratorium on such experiments with human eggs and sperm. But soon the researchers may be allowed to get back to work. An ethics advisory board appointed by HEW Secretary Joseph Califano has tentatively agreed that the ban should be lifted and proposed guidelines for the work. The board will take a formal vote on its recommendations next month...
...America's leading architecture critics, Peter Blake, in his belligerent text Form Follows Fiasco (1977), "Modern Dogma is worn out. We are now close to the end of one epoch, and well be fore the start of a new one. During this period of transition there will be no moratorium on building ... there will just be more and more architecture without architects." To travel in American cities is to know what he meant; the townscape of the '70s is perfused with cost-accountant buildings that bear no trace of human imagination: three-dimensional graphs of optimum efficiency, seemingly designed...
...CHUL representative from Adams House, said yesterday he had understood that Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, will make a decision on the CHUL boycott before the committee meeting. "The solution Wyatt talked about was that the Nestle boycott would be settled in some way and then a moratorium on future boycotts would be declared until a committee considered broader issues," Mayer added...
Florynce Kennedy, attorney and founder of the Feminist Party, told the crowd last night, "We must have a moratorium on all nuclear proliteration and plants, everything. We must escalate the grafitti, we've got to put it on prime time network television...