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...second time in a month, a major corporation last week announced that it was moving out of Manhattan. Three weeks ago General Dynamics declared its intention of transferring its head offices to St. Louis. Last week Chesebrough-Pond's, which sells more than $261 million a year in cosmetics, toiletries and food products, disclosed that it was shifting its headquarters from New York to Greenwich, Conn. The official reason was that the company wanted to be closer to its Connecticut laboratories and factory. Chesebrough-Pond's is only one of several large firms to move all or part...
...eager to work in DiCara's organization and confident that he can do the job properly despite his comparative inexperience. "You can splash around in your own little pond in a campaign this size," he pointed out Tuesday night. "The only way you're going to win is to get your name around and get press, and to get press you have to deal with hard issues. I think his chances are very good...
...Landscape also achieves the Pinter effect: here an old married couple carry on a conversation on two completely different planes, he prating endlessly about his rather boring day at the pub, and the park, and the pond, and she luxuriating in the remembrance of a love affair. Pinter's language is brilliant, and sometimes broad. (When she finishes a private recollection of sex on the beach the day before, while he carries on about the weather, he asks "What did you think of that downfall yester...
Wasserman built the twin high-rise (22-story) buildings in Fresh Pond which house 500 moderate-to-low-income elderly and families. There is a waiting list for apartments in these eye-scrapers, where rent is proportionate to income and the elderly receive government subsidies. Having bought the land very cheap years ago. Wasserman profits well from the two Rindge buildings...
...current (and first) community effort is the Putnam Square Apartment for the elderly, located at Mt. Auburn St. and Putnam Ave. The twelve-story tower will contain 94 low-income living units, plus community space on the first and twelfth floors. Plans to build family housing at Blair Pond have been forestalled by local neighborhood opposition. This opposition, not unlike that encountered by many housing planners, is basically racism clothed in ecological terms...