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...combat the overall problem, the President proposed this package plan: 1) stop the spread of blight by strict enforcement of occupancy and maintenance standards, 2) rehabilitate areas that can be saved by remodeling, repainting, building parks and playgrounds, etc., 3) raze and redevelop slums that cannot be saved. By building centers of health in declining neighborhoods, the Government hopes to spur home and apartment owners to repair, repaint, clean...
...bill to raze the M.T.A. kiosk in the Square has been filed in the state legislature by Senator Francis X. McCann...
...worked up from the opposable thumb to the implosible bomb, he has learned endless ways to change his environment. He can raise or raze forests, reverse rivers, level mountains or reshuffle atoms, but he cannot alter the fact that his health depends, as always, upon the food he eats, the water he drinks and the air he breathes. To safeguard these, he has to work, in an endless spiral, for more complete control of his environment...
...singing America and politely waiting to be arrested. Said one Short Creek leader: "This raid will give us $10 million worth of publicity." The governor hoped that most of the men would not only get prison terms but fines, which might enable the state to attach their property and raze the town. But polygamists are difficult to convict. Perhaps the Short Creek colony was finished, or perhaps it had just been given a big shot...
...darkness of early morning in Washington, Britain's Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks pulled on a topcoat over his pink pajamas and, along with Lady Franks and their two daughters, hurried out to watch a $10,000 fire raze a tool shed on the embassy grounds. The fireside group was soon joined by a neighbor, New Zealand's Ambassador Leslie Knox Munro, who for the occasion wore striped pajamas and a loud Paisley bathrobe...