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Mansfield said that the position will remain vacant "indefinitely." "There is no pressure to hire a replacement now and I do not expect any change next year," he added...
Fury and Tears. Although he had no journalistic experience, his breezy enthusiasm impressed WABC executives looking for someone to fill a vacant ethnic slot (he is half Puerto Rican, half Jewish). Rivera wasted little time on one-alarm fire assignments before digging into his own niche as the station's "slum-dope reporter." He made his name with a three-part report on the Drug Crisis in East Harlem, which gave names and faces to drug-abuse statistics with portraits of three heroin addicts. In 1972 he sneaked a camera crew into the Willowbrook State School for the mentally...
...Italian flag). More than 1,000 trees have been planted. A system of block workers set up by the corporation makes certain that leftover ravioli lands in, not outside the garbage cans. The corporation maintains a list of Italians eager to move onto the Hill. When houses be come vacant, it often refurbishes and resells them at low cost to young couples...
...actually necessary, at least desirable and economical in an era of violent food-price inflation. So think multitudes of Americans, who are growing vegetables in backyards, vacant lots, apartment-house window boxes and even swimming pools, with a zeal unmatched since the Victory Garden days of World War II. Some examples of the fervor...
...city of Chicago has set up 100 city-owned and an undetermined number of privately owned vacant lots as "neighborhood farms"; it plans to equip neighborhood farmers with seeds and seedlings, a farm guide, tools, fertilizer, insecticide, fencing and, when necessary, water from nearby fire hydrants...