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...Ryan of the Cleveland Browns already has his Ph.D. (his dissertation: "A Characterization of the Set of Asymptotic Values of a Function Holomorphic in the Unit Disc"), and during the off season he is an assistant professor of mathematics at Case Institute of Technology. Coach Harold Laycoe of the Portland, Ore., Buckaroos says with wonderment: "We even have a sprinkling of college graduates in pro hockey now. When I broke in, in 1945, there was a sprinkling of players who had completed grade twelve...
Perhaps more than any other U.S. Protestant denomination, the United Presbyterian Church has eloquently proclaimed that contemporary Christianity must concern itself with the problems of the poor. Last week, at its 179th general assembly in Portland, Ore., the church elected as its new moderator, or chief presiding officer, a man who has spent his ecclesiastical career ministering to the underprivileged: the Rev. Eugene Smathers, 59, for 35 years pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church in tiny Big Lick, Tenn...
Actually, there were no "new facts." The Portland Albany route that Cambridge citizens proposed as an alternative was the same in October as it had been in March. The main difference was Volpe's attitude: in March, he was untroubled by the DPW's selection; in October, he was worried...
Moreover, his pledge proved to be only partially true. There was no "start from scratch" in searching for an Inner Belt route through Cambridge. The DPW did make an intensive comparison of the Brookline-Elm St. route with the Portland-Albany alternate, but that was all. The DPW made it clear that Brookline Elm was still the route to beat and that only astounding new in formation would convince it otherwise. Even though eight months and $30,000 were spent on the new study it would have been surprising had the DPW reached a new conclusion. The department used...
Proponents of Portland-Albany were not asking for this repeat performance. They wanted a deeper and more sympathetic review of the social consequences of the highway for Cambridge. They never got it, and, for that the Governor is to blame more than anyone else...