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Alan Altshuler, 33, a farsighted urban planner, became Massachusetts' secretary of transportation and construction in 1971, after leading the effort to persuade Republican Governor Francis Sargent to halt all new expressway construction in the Boston area until a plan balancing environmental and social consequences, mass transit, and automobile use could be fully worked out. A Cornell graduate and former M.I.T. political scientist, Altshuler lobbied for three years for the transfer of interstate highway funds to urban areas for mass transit; last May the Bay State was granted the first such transfer -$670 million
...rates 30%. To improve Houston's mass-transit system, Hofheinz purchased a private bus company, and has been laboring to enlarge and upgrade the city's police and fire departments. Once a month Hofheinz fields phone calls on television to answer whatever questions his constituents may want...
...government, became a Minneapolis alderman at 26. Last year he was elected mayor of Minneapolis in a startling upset over the law-and-order incumbent, Police Detective Charles Stenvig. Since taking office, he has begun an ambitious multimillion-dollar urban-renovation plan, reorganized equipment to provide better mass-transit service and placed considerable emphasis on preserving the flavor-and safety-of Minneapolis' old neighborhoods...
...nine-vote margin in 1971. Bridgeport's first Republican mayor in 44 years, Panuzio has given the 156,000 residents two years of tax cuts, created a Department of Aging to provide assistance and job training for older people, and operated one of the few self-sufficient transit systems in the state. Panuzio was re-elected by 2,000 votes in 1973, is now seeking the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination. Though his chances of getting it are slight, he figures to win wider recognition...
...city of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority are continuing efforts to extend the MBTA Red Line beyond Harvard Square to the proposed Alewife Brook Station near Fresh Pond...