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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...

Author: By James Lemoyne, | Title: Gov Dept. Fails to Fill Kissinger Chair | 5/29/1974 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rock Reporter Rivera | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: St. Louis: Pride on the Hill | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Seed Money | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Seed Money | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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