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When Collins took over City Hall in 1960, after an upset victory over old line politician John E. Powers, urban renewal in Boston was stagnant. There were several small projects in progress, but it was becoming apparent that these were not enough. Property values in Boston had dropped nearly a half billion dollars since 1930, and about 50 per cent of the city's residents were living in so-called "slum-dominated" neighborhoods. Mayor Collins imported Logue, who had earned a national reputation as the man who saved New Haven, Cons. After some political hassling, Logue was installed as head...
...More power to the little town of Hennepin, Ill., and to Jones & Laughlin for locating their new plant there [July 9]. Andrews, N.C., is also a little town. It is one of the most economically stagnant areas of Appalachia. Poor they may be, but Andrews residents are proud too. Under the leadership of Mayor Percy B. Ferebee, a development corporation was formed, and $200,000 was raised. With this as bait, Andrews in two years signed a furniture company. Today, construction is under way on a factory that will employ 900-about three times as many men as there...
What was bothering Hassan was the state of the nation, which was dreadful. Business was stagnant. Half the Moroccan work force was underemployed, and one man in ten had no work at all. In the largest city, Casablanca, student mobs last March battled police and soldiers and ran up a death toll of 200. Foreign reserves were dangerously low, while inflation soared, and crates of furniture clogged the docksides as some 40,000 exasperated foreigners prepared to leave for good. In Parliament, half a dozen political parties bickered endlessly-in two years of debating, the House of Representatives has managed...
...immediately set a "small group" of students at Maryland to feeling lonely. If there were no protests at College Park, they concluded, there must surely be something wrong with the campus. The local chapter of the nationwide Students for a Democratic Society vowed to "inject new controversy into the stagnant university system." Another group organized an Academic Freedoms Committee to "restore controversy to its proper place in academic life." The dissenters combined to form a united organization called Students for a Free University...
...world were flat, the end of the earth would undoubtedly be French Guiana. A remote, jungle-shrouded patch on the northeast shoulder of South America, one-sixth the size of metropolitan France (see map), the colony is so stagnant that its population has increased by only 10,000 in 350 years, to its present total of 31,000 inhabitants. French Guiana's chief contributions to mankind so far have been one of history's most infamous prisons, Devil's Island, and the loan of the name of its sleepy capital, Cayenne, to a famous variety of pepper...