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...Cambridge City Council yesterday requested Planning Director Alan McClennen to survey the Bennett St. MTA Yards and recommend steps to be taken for the construction of one-and two-family dwellings in the area...
...very shrewd. He was not nearly so interested in gaining unofficially thought-out views of economic and military programs as he was in providing himself with a club with which to clip Otto Passman, chairman of the Foreign Aid Appropriations subcommittee, behind the ear. The Committee, which would surely recommend a few minor cuts in expenditure and give the rest of foreign aid its blessing, would at last lend the programs an appearance respectable enough to cow the Congress...
...Bell's office and House hearing rooms, began to run wild. He had examined the President's apparent humiliation to his committee's wishes, and had discovered that two-thirds of the White House education was a "paper cut" of unobligated funds rather than a reflection of his recommendations. The General was now prepared to recommend $300 million more in cuts to Mr. Morgan this week. Already it is obvious that the cynics were right, and that when Mr. Passman comes to run his disapproving eye over A.I.D. the authorized ceiling in its funds will be at least $1.2 billion...
Hugging or Violating. Authors Tunnard and Pushkarev emphasize the need for an "essential unity of plan and profile"-a short sag on a long curve, for instance, should be avoided in favor of the harmonious gradual one. In fact, the authors recommend continuously curving roadways, on the ground that they not only are more esthetic, but also tend to keep the driver interested and therefore alert. Surprisingly, in the average terrain, such highways are very little, if any, longer, and no more expensive to build than the standard design of straight stretches connected by short curves. Uniform median width should...
Unfortunately, despite several fine performances, the film has little to recommend it. The story is all too familiar. Lemmon plays Joe Clay, a bright, young, agreeable, on-the-rise public relations man--a role he played in The Apartment. The requirements of his job lead him to compromise his principles, as in The Apartment. "I want to be a public relations man," he tells his girlfriend (Lee Remick) glumly, "not a pimp...