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...Report, commissioned by Collins and released last week, proposes that a new city agency be formed to plan and construct all municipal buildings. This "Public Facilities Commission" would be appointed by, and solely responsible to, the mayor. It would conduct long range planning, handle all finances, choose architects, and select building sites. It would have a budget immune to amendment by the City Council, and it would be able to bypass city regulatory agencies and float its own bond issues without regard to the city's statutory debt limit...
Under the honor system, shoppers select their groceries, tot up their tab on an adding machine, then pay a cashier. The sum is never questioned. "From time to time," says Migros Sales Chief Rolf Frieden, "we have customers who come back saying they underpaid us, but it happens just as often the other way. We always make up the difference, no questions asked." At the test store, sales went up, overhead went down, and pilferage amounted to only 0.3% of sales, just about what it had been before...
...secure "home base." It is true that the junior Senator will probably not be able to name the Democratic candidate for Governor, who has an excellent chance for defeating Nelson Rockefeller this fall; or choose the man who should fail miserably to defeat Senator Jacob Javits in 1968; or select the Democrat who may or may not be able to beat Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1969. Kennedy will probably not be able to win the trust of the Liberal Party bosses or take over the Kings County (Brooklyn) organization or make something coherent out of the endless jabbering...
...alumni will select new overseers in an election this month, but many of the graduates who are most familiar with the college's problems will not be eligible to vote. According to a rule passed in 1865, alumni may not cast a ballot until five years after they graduate. Apparently the five years following graduation are more valuable to a man bent on acquiring sagacity and maturity than the four years he spends getting his degree...
Most observers believe that the DPW will now select the Brookline-Elm St. route for the Belt. This path, long favored by the state agency, passes within several blocks of Central Square and would uproot between 3000 and 5000 people...