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...symposium at the Johnson Memorial Library in Austin, Tex., the urban planners, all former members of the Johnson Administration, charged that President Nixon's housing and revenue-sharing programs are failing to deal with urban problems...
...Building an effective urban coalition is a Presidency's major task," Haar told the symposium. Federal departments and congressional committees will not work for a program unless it has clear presidential support, he said...
...morning the full committee was told about Butterfield's story. A staff attorney was ordered to call Butterfield and tell him that he would be put on television that afternoon. Butterfield, reached in a barbershop, objected, still concerned about national security and worried about missing the opening of a symposium in the Soviet Union on American aerospace products. When Ervin learned of this, he told his staff attorney: "You tell him that I order him to come and testify, and if we have to, we'll subpoena him and bring...
...critic but a dazzling one-man symposium. Devils represents Wilson the percipient tourist (in an essay on Italy's 16th century garden of sculptured monsters at Bomarzo), Wilson the memoirist and literary gamesman (in a record of his friendship with Novelist Edwin O'Connor), and Wilson the reviewer-who-was-there...
...JOSEPH P. KENNEDY Jr. Foundation in Washington sponsored a symposium on ethical problems of medicine in October 1971 which was attended by legal and medical experts from all over the country. The foundation has funded programs in medical ethics at several institutions, including Harvard's Interfaculty Program in Medical Ethics. Harvard's program is designed to examine the ethical behavior of physicians "at a time when reappraisal of the moral basis for the medical acts of society and physicians is occurring in a wide variety of issues," according to the foundation...