Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbus example has been tried in dozens of other communities--including New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant, in a project sponsored by Senator Robert Kennedy. But even if the Mayor were to follow the approach, in fact, he would be taking only a very limited step towards the wisdom of the unconventional approach, in fact, on its own it can end up as little more than "shrewd administractive technique" for routine antipoverty efforts...
...both the black and white communities, and involved loans, self-help, and very few hand-outs, could be the basis of a new politics--a politics which did not have to tax one group to give hand-outs to another--and a politics which could take a long step towards the political reconstruction of the ideal of community and cooperation...
More action it is agreed, is to be expected on the local than on the national level, mostly notably in New York where Lindsay has vowed to champion the Report. Whether or not the Report is a step towards curing the "white man's sickness' 'and whether it will help prevent more violence are open questions, and nowhere more so than at Harvard
...Frederick Seitz, 56, becomes president of Manhattan's Rockefeller University on July 1, he will be taking over a 14-year-old school that has only 138 students. For Seitz, who has been head of the National Academy of Sciences since 1962, it will hardly be a professional step back ward. Rockefeller University not only ranks as one of the world's leading centers of scientific research, but is also a unique educational phenomenon-a graduate university that gives no grades, charges no tuition, confers nothing except doctoral degrees...
...chief planning officer. Following Thomson as president will be Donald T. Regan, 49, a Massachusetts Irishman from Harvard who was a 1940 classmate of John F. Kennedy. Chairman George J. Leness remains as chief executive. But since Merrill Lynch has a mandatory retirement age of 65, Chairman Leness will step out late this year and turn his title over to Thomson. When Thomson retires a year after that, Regan will step in to run the world's largest investment house...