Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loose. "I was in a saloon once where a guy shot all the way down a bar," he once complained to a director during a western fight scene. "And I wanna tell you, those extras aren't moving fast enough." The trick was to release the violence in neighborhood theaters. But somehow the oversized part continued to elude the outsized Wayne. The first picture he made for Monogram literally took place in a one-horse town; the budget did not allow for any more livestock...
Brigham become head of local model cities in September 1968, and helped develop its $7.7 million program which was approved by the Federal government last month. The program aims at concentrating money from different Federal agencies into one neighborhood, in Cambridge, an area just east of Central Square...
...letter to the board of neighborhood residents which supervises model cities, Brigham said that "That program is now moving into a different phase--from planning to action--and the program's leadership should hit accordingly." The new director should have more executive and administrative experience, he said. Brigham's specialty is city planning...
...recommended that the neighborhood board name a special five man committee to select his successor...
MOST OF THE housing proposals, for example, will require approval of plans or zoning changes by the City Council. And it is almost axiomatic that even if everyone in a city is in favor of more low-income housing, just about no one wants a housing project in his neighborhood. If a zoning change is requested to build a housing project on any given site, it's a good bet that thirty neighbors of the site will come down to the council to tell them why the project would ruin the neighborhood. It is difficult to build a countervailing force...