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...after the assassination of John F. Kennedy '40, Daniel P. Moynihan, now director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, sensed the possible murder of alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald if he remained in Dallas...
When contacted yesterday, Moynihan confirmed the events described by Manchester, but declined further comment...
...M.I.T., Moynihan says, "they think that basic research is what you do when you don't know what you're doing" - they have always been more favorably disposed toward action-oriented programs ... Greater activism by the Joint Center is not only needed but also wanted in the community...
...face financial problems in moving toward a more activist policy. At present, the Ford unrestricted grant, amounts to about a third of the Center's total budget. The other two-thirds comes from Foundation money, the Center's only grants and contracts that commit the Center to particular activities. Moynihan would like to reverse this ratio, in order to give the Center more flexibility and independence. But until he is able to attract more "unrestricted funds," he will have to go slow in changing the direction of Joint Center activity...
...Moynihan has no illusions about the power of the Joint Center, even if it were greatly expanded. "What we need," he says, "is to make the bankers and lawyers and engineers and businessmen who build our cities more sensitive to the social and aesthetic consequences of what they are doing." Walking down the new three-foot-wide sidewalk on the west side of Palmer Street, he demonstrates his point by pretending to collide with the No Parking sign planted squarely in the middle of the walk and then by trying to slip between the building and a truck parked...