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Huntington, who is leader of the committee developing plans for the project, said that the centers would encourage neighborhood action. "For example, an organization wishing to clear a vacant lot for a playground could easily reach the mayor's office for assistance through the center," he said...
...chance for the Corporation to prove where it stands has come fairly early. COBI was faced with its first fight when it discovered that the Polaroid Company had bought a vacant lot with the intention of turning it into a parking lot. The residents wanted to use that area as a play lot, since recreational facilities in that area are very scarce. Nor is this a problem specific to area number 4. One residential area after another has had to watch
Bonnie, played by Faye Dunaway, is first glimpsed naked, a sensual Erskine Caldwell backwoods beauty imprisoned by her hot, airless room. Clyde, the jaunty, vacant car thief, played by Warren Beatty, offers her passage out of the Dust Bowl, with his gun as her ticket. To her dismay, she discovers that he is impotent. "Your advertising is just dandy," sneers Bonnie, after their first no-love session. "Folks'd never guess you don't have a thing to sell." Yet Clyde does have a salable commodity: movement in a time of inertia, elation in the midst of depression...
...application deadline was announced) he arrived home too late to apply to civil service school. Instead he languished in the French army, fulfilling his military obligation in Paris as an aide to the Minister of War--until January, 1955, when Bundy wrote and invited him to fill a vacant Instructorship at Harvard...
...nation's 13 regional airlines, fare slicing still seems the best way to fill empty seats, most of which are vacant because their new jets provide increased capacity. Ozark, with an operating loss of $240,000 for the first nine months of the year, gives students and military men confirmed space at a 33% discount, lets clergymen fly on a standby basis for half fare. Next month it plans a $30 weekend special allowing a passenger to fly anywhere in the system from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon. With a similar scheme, Mohawk increased its Saturday traffic...