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...appointed his wife as his executive secretary at $400 a month, and his niece as secretary to the county clerk at $300 a month. Sheriff Charley Mclntosh had taken on his wife as an assistant at $227 a month, and the county clerk had engaged his wife as county planner for $800 a month...
...commission surprised them by inviting representatives from all concerned groups-friends and foes alike-to participate in some 30 special workshop sessions in communities across Colorado. At those meetings, the commissioners remained mostly silent. "We were learning," says Claude Peters, the commission's consultant planner. "We needed to be aware of the local problems." Adds Commission Chairman John Crowley: "We ran across old records that showed how much life a certain piece of land could support. Old ranchers with good memories fed us valuable information. AH the pieces came together...
...Nixon look in American foreign policy is basically responsible. Sensing a trend, a pretty young thing called Veronika Yhap put aside her work as a hospital planner and became a Dragon Lady-one of four, in fact, who banded together under that name to import Chinese-manufactured clothing and handicraft. Born in Shanghai but educated in the U.S., Veronika found a host of potential buyers around Manhattan shops after she showed clothes from her own wardrobe. "The response was fantastic." she says, "and we were in business before we knew...
Hartman, who founded the Urban Field Service (UFS) in 1968, was eased out in 1970 by Isaacs, Nash and Vigier primarily because his staunch support of advocacy planning and his political militance against Harvard's housing policies in Cambridge ran counter to their view of what a planner's role in society should be. In recommending that Hartman's contract not be renewed, Nash, who was the department chairman at the time, wrote that "(Hartman's) method of teaching conveys a sense of political strategy (that goes past) the substance of city and regional planning. (His) loyalties to the School...
...black youngsters for survival in a prejudiced world. They are concerned over all sorts of seemingly minor problems, such as a white parent's lack of experience in combing a black child's kinky hair ("There's just no way to do it gently," says Urban Planner Thomas Nutt). Another danger: stereotyped ideas of black intelligence that may crop up when an adopted child is the only black in his school and neither his teacher nor his classmates expect him to do well. Both blacks and whites are wary of civil rights crusaders willing to sacrifice...