Word: planner
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Died. Li Fu-chun, 75, Red China's master planner; in Peking. A veteran of the 6,000-mile Long March in 1934-35 with his childhood friend Mao Tse-tung, Li was named Minister of Heavy Industry after the Communists' 1949 victory. As chief of the State Planning Commission Li marshalled millions of peasants in the abortive industrial phase of the Great Leap Forward (1958-61). Both Mao and the recently hospitalized Chou En-lai attended their old comrade's funeral...
...portrait of New York's master planner Robert Moses, a ruthless visionary who built toward a city of the future and found that power corrupts and so does the internal-combustion engine...
David Vickery, a Cambridge city planner, said last night that developer Jones was planning to bring suit on grounds that the Agassiz planning board had not given proper approval to the rezoning...
EDWARD J. LOGUE, $176,389. A top urban planner, Logue was lured to New York in 1968 by Rockefeller to organize and direct the New York State Urban Development Corp., which oversees urban renewal and low-income housing in the state. One incentive was a $31,389 gift. In 1969 Rocky also loaned Logue $145,000 to buy a cooperative apartment. Logue has since repaid $45,000 of this loan and said he intends to pay it all. The cash apparently was given before Logue went on the New York State payroll...
Calvin Hicks is a member of the Coalition to Combat Racism, a faculty member of Staten Island Community College, and a Program Planner at the Institute of Learning and Teaching, University of Massachusetts at Boston...