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Weaver as HHFA head, is to rehabilitate existing inner-city homes instead of building anew, using federal money to buy property outright or to subsidize landlords' improvements. One outstanding example is New Haven's Wooster Square, where more than 1,000 rundown buildings were spruced up and the neighborhood's original residential character retained without the upheaval of a new project. Yet this New Haven project cost the Federal Government $19.3 million, an average of $130 per city resident. At that per capita rate of expenditure, creating a Wooster Square in every U.S. metropolitan area would cost...
...with Sargent Shriver and Jack Hood Vaughn, his nominee to succeed Shriver as head of the Peace Corps (see following story). That ceremony was swiftly followed-all in the White House-by Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach's resume of Johnson-proposed constitutional amendments, Robert McNamara's rundown of defense expenditures, a discussion of tax revision by Treasury Secretary Fowler, and brief appearances by House Speaker McCormack, Senate Majority Leader Mansfield and Vice President Humphrey...
...rundown of the Northeastern starting lineup is enough to make one wonder when Boston became a province. Five of the six starters are from Canada and they are backed up by seven receives from north of the border...
...following day, Johnson spent 45 minutes reviewing domestic and foreign problems with Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and a hour with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who brought him a get-well message from the Soviet leaders and a rundown on the crises in Indonesia and Rhodesia (see THE WORLD). Then the postoperative euphoria started wearing off. Taken off sedation, the President slept fitfully, some nights for as little as two hours! He was restless during the day. "While I was there," said Moyers, "he spent part of his time in his chair, and he got back...
While Hansen carries on his innovations, the system labors under the serious handicaps of a limited budget imposed by a parsimonious Congress and dutiful district commissioners. Many of the buildings are rundown and ratinfested; one-third of the teachers are "temporaries." Critics also find considerable fault with Hansen's rule. The Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy, an aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King, protests that the four-track system "hardens class lines" and unfairly labels pupils on the basis of tests that "do not measure intelligence but the child's proficiency with middle-class symbols...