Word: sargents
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Governor Francis W. Sargent will propose Tuesday that the Legislature set up a state agency to provide relocation housing for those whose homes have been demolished to make way for state, federal, and municipal construction in Massachusetts...
...proposed, the new housing corporation would be an independent state agency whose seven-member governing board would be appointed by Sargent. A two-thirds majority of the board would make decisions regarding particular uses of eminent domain, but the corporation would generally "respect regional planning guidelines," Albert L. Kramer, urban assistant to Sargent, said yesterday...
...Sargent Shriver was speaking rhetorically when he posed that question last week to a group of college students in the town of Westminster, his Maryland birthplace. Still, he was obviously pleased when someone in the crowd shouted: "Run for Governor!" Back home after two years in Paris as the U.S. ambassador there, Shriver thus began a month or so of political sod-testing before deciding whether to run for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in the September primary. Off the campuses, however, the mod-suited, conventionally handsome Kennedy in-law may find the Maryland soil somewhat difficult to till...
...Earth Day, Wednesday, demonstrators will rally at Government Center to present representatives of Mayor White and Governor Sargent with a list of survival demands-including requests for procedures to decrease environmental pollution...
Rallies and Fasts. There were other stirrings on the antiwar front. In Boston, Governor Francis Sargent signed a bizarre bill that had passed the Massachusetts legislature by respectable majorities. The law provides that no Massachusetts serviceman can be compelled to go to a foreign combat zone in the absence of a congressional declaration of war. Three servicemen promptly volunteered to test the new law, which is certain to make an odd footnote to American constitutional history...