Word: projected
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...under secretary in charge of legislation, he appointed Russell E. Train, a noted conservationist. Hickel stopped developers from wiping out Nevada's Pyramid Lake, habitat of the Paiute Indians. He blocked a builder's plan that threatened to further pollute the Potomac. He sponsored a pilot project uniting three seashore areas around New York Harbor, the first of a series of urban national parks. He dreams of combatting auto fumes with 150-m.p.h. commuter trains: "From five miles out, you'd be downtown quicker than if you drove...
Sympathetic Voice. This modest effort in human relations was begun last March by the Senior Citizens' Pilot Project under the sponsorship of the Scott County Commission on Aging. Unlike the numerous Dial-a-Prayer switchboards and suicide-prevention centers, its purpose is neither to deliver canned messages of hope nor to cope with life-and-death crises, but to offer lonely callers a simple human connection. The service costs almost nothing: less than $700 a year for telephone equipment and a few office supplies. Not everyone can be a listener. "We're very selective about our volunteers," says...
...protest the war and demonstrate their support for the Black Panthers and for the "Conspiracy 8," who are charged with conspiring to incite riots at the Chicago Democratic convention last year. For sheer propaganda, however, nothing the activists are planning or doing is likely to equal the summer project of ex-S.D.S. Organizer Rennie Davis and Detroit's Linda Evans, an S.D.S. leader. They are presently in Hanoi as members of the U.S. delegation invited to escort homeward the three U.S. prisoners of war whose release was promised by the North Vietnamese early in July in observance...
Died. Hallie Flanagan Davis, 78, director from 1935 to 1939 of the New Deal's WPA Theater Project; of Parkinson's disease; in Old Tappan, N.J. Unemployment was skyrocketing in the Depression-bound U.S. theater when Mrs. Davis, who founded Vassar College's Experimental Theater, was asked to help the show go on. She established theaters in 40 cities across the country, opened up jobs for some 13,000 actors, directors and theater workers, and helped introduce such playwrights as Christopher Marlowe, Maxwell Anderson and Clifford Odets...
M.I.T., for example, last spring announced a program to build housing for its personnel and low-income Cambridge residents; Harvard is now preparing a comparable program. The City government has speeded up planning of several housing project that were long hanging in the air. Yet these hopeful signs do not mean that the plans will come to reality; continued political pressure is required for that...