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During the turbulent days following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968, the New York State Urban Development Corporation was born. At the urging of then Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the state legislature established an agency to rebuild ghettos in New York by financing low-cost housing and civic and commercial projects...
Since he took over the defense ministry from his friend Moshe Dayan less than a year ago, the Polish-born Peres has earned a reputation as a highly effective administrator who has helped rebuild the Israeli army's morale, which was shattered by the losses of the October war. He lives simply, sharing a modest book-filled apartment in Tel Aviv with his wife Sonia and two of their three children (the third is married). In his private hours, Peres, who studied at both Harvard and New York University, writes books about contemporary Israeli problems, as well as poetry...
...both in the sciences and the simple trades. When I look at our needs and I look at our resources and what we need to do, I see an America in which everyone is going to be fully employed. I see an America where, literally, we will rebuild the country. We will have to do it with great skill, of course, because resources are finite. We can't corrupt the atmosphere and the water and the land in the name of growth...
...develop a highly motivated, disciplined soldier who knows the basic skills of his craft," says Major General William B. Caldwell III, commander of Fort Jackson. "Unlike the Marines-and I don't mean to criticize them-we don't first break a man down and then rebuild him. We think that he should be able to think for himself. He should respond to orders, but we don't want to set him in a mold...
...situation looks discouraging, at best. General Education is in a sad state of limbo, and the Humanities may be suffering the most. Dean Rosovsky's commission to reinvestigate undergraduate education should not simply look for remedies for the ills of an outdated system of General Education, but attempt to rebuild the entire structure that is presently in ruin...