Word: planning
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...from rioting and racial tension. He had dealt with that in an earlier position paper stressing the need for black economic progress (TIME, May 3). Last week his statement on racial accommodation drew praise from an unexpected source-the militant Congress of Racial Equality, which put forward its own plan for Negro selfhelp. Roy Innis, CORE associate national director, said Nixon's speech "opened the eyes of a lot of people" and made him a "contender for the black vote." Until now Nixon has not been particularly popular among Negro leaders. If Innis starts a trend, the Republican campaign...
Nonetheless, such projects are rapidly proliferating, and the result is some startling new real estate configurations. In New York City, officials shrewdly plan to construct a number of future schools in air-rights developments. The schools are to occupy the bottom floors of highrise apartment buildings that developers will put up on airspace leased from the city. In some cases, the money received from the developers will more than pay the cost of building the schools...
...Kennedy Round agreements hold, the new head of GATT and his associates will be able to start work on another major effort to liberalize world trade. They plan to tackle the area of nontariff obstacles to commerce from border taxes to sanitary regulations. Also high on GATT's agenda are measures to encourage trade between developed and underdeveloped nations by means of special concessions. Long foresees a period ahead in which the problems of poorer countries will be "of paramount importance," and his main job will be to help stop the widening prosperity...
...affair thrives, despite burlesqued escapes from detection, and Martha evolves a plan to drown Dreyer, inherit his millions and marry Franz. "My dining room, my earrings, my silver, my Franz," she muses. Martha, in fact, is so greedy that she aborts the murder plot at the last moment because her husband remarks that he is about to fatten his estate with $100,000 from the sale of a patent for mechanical mannequins. The appearance of these "automanne-quins" raises the question of who is real and who is not-one of those Nabokovian diversions that in later novels are more...
Robinson added that the HPC had contacted professors at M.I.T. and B.U. who think the idea is workable and said the plan "isn't meeting any objections here...