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There is some question as to where tomorrow's meet will be held. The Harvard track is in poor repair and probably will not be ready by tomorrow. In that event, the meet will be shifted to B.C.'s tartan surface track...
...tenant spokesmen participated in sessions of the Medical School's Community Relations Committee, which Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, had set up to "guide" University decision-making with respect to institutional expansion in Roxbury. This committee approved and reiterated proposals that Harvard adequately maintain and repair safety hazards in tenants' apartments, and that it immediately rent other vacant homes in the area to prevent an already fragmented res?den??l community from failing hopelessly apart?. Yet it was not until last month-eight months after the recommendation-that Harvard completed a safety survey of its medical...
...townspeople settled down to choosing their three-member board of selectmen and debating a $117,280 town budget. They approved $9,000 for a new school bus and $100 for steel roofing to cover the shed that houses salt to spread on winter roads. But no, they would not repair a section of road leading to the house of the community's second-largest taxpayer. An appropriation for other winter road maintenance was passed, however, because a housewife exclaimed: "I got stuck twice and couldn't get the old man to work...
Both are well aware that the North is no promised land. But Mike, at least, wants to get out of Ludowici (population about 2,000), where his father runs a shoe-repair shop in a roadside shack. Mike disdains separatist ideology, but sees his future in terms of heightened black identity: "Whites used to say, 'Respect us because we are beautiful.' Now we are saying: 'O.K., and you respect us because we are black and we are beautiful too.' " Says Rose Marie: "This is a new day and a new time, and they know...
...measuring the efficiency of various U.S. industries by gauging the amounts of capital and labor needed to produce a dollar's worth of glass, insurance, hotel service and so on. By these purely statistical standards, efficiency is rising fastest in the telephone and telegraph industries, among others. Even auto repair is rated moderately efficient...