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President Pusey resigns in protest as he returns from a holiday weekend to find Mrs. Bunting ensconced in the President's mansion. Ronald Reagan, Republican candidate for governor of California, proposes to raze 40 blocks of central Watts and replace them with Disneyland. "Those people just want to be happy," he says...
Residents of the area, in their organized struggle against Boston Redevelopment plan to raze their houses a high-rise, high-rent complex, have attracted local and even some attention...
...hand there were the Führer's orders to raze Paris, cabled and telephoned with increasing frequency, culminating in Hitler's furious two-word query: "Brennt Paris?-Is Paris burning?" On the other was the eloquent plea of the Vichy mayor of Paris, Pierre Taittinger, as the two stood on the balcony of the Hotel Meurice looking out across Paris shortly after the general had arrived. "Often it is given to a general to destroy, rarely to preserve," said Taittinger. "Imagine that one day it may be given to you to stand on this balcony again...
...Boston Redevelopment Authority is planning to raze all the homes of the small community located behind the Business School. The planners said the project is "contrary to the stated principles of the renewal program" and termed it "another case where low and moderate-income families are being forced to leave their homes to permit construction of a luxury apartment building to which few, if any, of the original inhabitants can return...
...that was all right with the little old lady who lived around the corner on 68th Street. She didn't even mind in 1960 when Nikita Khrushchev visited the corner house, which was the Soviet U.N. mission, and played a noisy balcony scene. But when workmen started to raze the former mission and its neighbor in favor of a banal apartment tower, she minded very much and, identified by the sellers only as a "person of immense good will" she pledged $2,000,000 to buy the buildings for the city. Who was she? Well, she doesn...