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...Chicago slums that Al Capone's gang made infamous. Planned as a commuter college without dormitories, the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle sits in the inner city-as does the Sorbonne in Paris. Within view of the Loop, the campus actually occupies the area designated by City Planner Daniel ("Make no little plan") Burnham in 1909 as the site for Chicago's future civic center. It is no coincidence that the campus is the first ever named for a traffic clover-leaf-the adjacent intersection of three expressways called Chicago Circle...
...machinery and other manufactures. Owing to a swelling demand for imports, Spain is heading for a $200 million balance-of-payments deficit in 1965 and must find export markets for her growing factory output. Explains Láureano López Rodó, 44, Franco's top economic planner: "Credits are a means of selling, and since our fundamental problem now is our export problem, I believe we should try to put ourselves in a competitive position...
Died. Erich Apel, 48, East Germany's chief economic planner; by his own hand (method unannounced); in East Berlin. Since his predecessor also committed suicide, the East Germans called Apel's death "a sudden uncontrolled reaction" brought on by "overburdened nerves." They were especially embarrassed since it took place three days after he had concluded a new five-year trade pact with the Russians...
...professor, helped create one of the nation's first educational-consultant organizations at Columbia Teachers College in 1917. He set up a private operation in 1947 with his son Nick and Stanton Leggett, a Ph.D. in education from Columbia. Nick had studied engineering at Yale, worked as a planner for Architect Wallace Harrison and earned a Ph.D. in educational administration at Columbia...
Died. Oskar Lange, 61, Poland's Deputy Premier and chief economic planner, leading economist of the Eastern bloc, a onetime U.S. immigrant and University of Chicago economics professor who in 1945 joined the newly formed Polish Communist regime as Ambassador to the U.S. and later to the U.N., in 1956 revolutionized Eastern thinking with a then-heretical plan to revive Poland's floundering economy by decentralization and partial re-introduction of the profit motive; in London, where he had gone for medical treatment...