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...increasing number of urbanologists, a partial solution is to start from scratch, wherever possible, by building "new towns"-completely planned communities that could support as many as 1,000,000 people apiece. Such new towns, says Architecture Critic Wolf Von Eckardt, are "our best hope of coming to grips with the problems of megalopolis." Ed Logue, the city planner who rebuilt Boston's downtown area and recently became president of New York State's Urban Development Corporation, advocates tax incentives that would entice developers to build towns ranging in size from 100,000 to 250,000. "At that...
...become head of their department or organization, have their heads and other parts of their bodies lopped off by a devious ax murderer-or murderers. On the squash court of New York's Eli Club, Professor Bertram Langsam loses his head and thumb. Ferdinand Fields, an Episcopal rector partial to horror flicks, is decapitated in the men's room of a Long Island railroad train by a Peruvian sun priestess turned tramp. Whittaker Duchamp, bogus play producer, is more fortunate: he only loses an ear. The bloody trail is also strewn with a vengeful rabbi, scheming and pathetic...
...LEARNED last week that the Harvard Personnel Office has refused the request of David Kelston, a Public Health School research assistant, that it "supervise" his work at Harvard as partial fulfillment of his alternate obligation as a I-O conscientious objector...
...poetry. He claimed to have "a tremendous amount of respect for the area. I want people to come and, if they don't like what they see, I hope they can tell us about it." And, if the show had established itself, it might just have become a partial outlet for some of Cambridge's creativity...
Europe's Advantage. The U.S.'s Committee for Economic Development, a group of top executives, argues that VAT should be considered as a partial replacement for corporate income taxes. Congress so far shows no inclination to consider such fundamental changes. In Geneva, American negotiators have been pushing for a sensible change in GATT rules to allow U.S. companies to receive export rebates based on corporate income taxes and other "direct" taxes. In his final economic message, President Johnson asked for Europe's help in revising the rules "so that they no longer give a special advantage...