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...Looking into 52,000 slum buildings, the city found 9,000 to be "rat-infested," reported that 7,900 were later "cleaned up," which leaves only...
...Antwerp, Buenos Aires, and the war-destroyed French city of Saint-Dié. None were built, but they still marked him as one of the most audacious city planners of his time, the man who more than anyone else foresaw the age of the traffic jam and the exploding slum. At the center of his City of Three Million was a group ot cross-shaped skyscrapers, 50 to 60 stones high, placed far apart in expanses of greebery like "towers in a park." "These skyscrapers," Le Corbusier airily explained, "will contain the city's brains. Everything...
...slum kid's Harvard, New York City's tuition-free City College has produced such men as Financier Bernard Baruch and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Started 114 years ago, it sparked the founding of six more colleges to form a huge municipal system that now has 91,450 students. By winning the right to grant doctorates, the system this month became "the world's largest university." This week City University installed its first chancellor: John Rutherford Everett, 42, former president of Virginia's little (675 women) Hollins College, who calls his new job "probably...
...similar to Title III of the NDEA, calling for loans to non-public schools. States rights Congressmen, feeling the strain on their pocketbooks more than on their principles, will accept the bill if the clause which sets aside ten per cent of each state's Federal aid for predetermined slum areas is deleted. The revised bill would give the states one hundred per cent control of the allocation of the money...
...sign her retirement papers. Watanabe becomes acquainted with her, and it is her future employment--in a toy factory--which suggests that he may still further the happiness of others. He returns to the city hall and takes up the first possible project, a proposed park in a slum district. The rest of the movie concerns his struggle to save his park from the bureaucratic lethargy which has enchained him for thirty years...