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...Dozen-or a Hundred. Johnson's most ambitious idea would create a "demonstration cities program" to be administered by the new Housing and Urban Development Department. Under this scheme, a city applying for federal aid would select a single blighted neighborhood and submit an overall plan for its rejuvenation. The project would include housing for different income groups and the public health, education, recreation, welfare and transportation services necessary to "change the total environment...
...There is an undercurrent of opinion among the councillors that the route for the Inner Belt is almost a foregone conclusion. Most believe that the State Department of Public Works will certainly select the Brookline-Elm St. location--a route near Central Square that has been long favored by the state agency and consistently condemned by city officials...
...such questions as "Am I an ant?" or to circle the right word in distinguishing between mat and man. New letters are introduced, and by Book 7 he can handle such words as sandwich, haystack and yesterday. Each step requires the child to either make a yes-no choice, select the words to complete a sentence, or fill in a blank in a sentence. By Book 21 he has been introduced to all the toughest exceptions to the phonetic rules of English. His reading vocabulary totals 2,892 words -including deceitful, labyrinth and ridiculous-and he is reading action-packed...
Another open question under the new system has been the number of freshmen a Master will be permitted to select for his House before the names are thrown into a pool to be distributed evenly. Monro said no decision had been reached on this; "but they'll know about the people who have expressed an interest in their House...
Gilmore is in Cambridge for conferences with the I Tatti committee to select next year's fellows and to discuss the construction of a permanent photograph library at the Center...