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...ministerial switches, Swaran Singh, 59, went from the Foreign Office to Chavan's old post at Defense. His place in foreign affairs was taken by Mahomedali Currim Chagla, 66, an Oxford-educated Moslem who has served as ambassador to both the U.S. and Great Britain. Chagla's vacant spot in Education went, in turn, to Fakhruddin Ahmed, 61, whose old post as Minister for Irrigation and Power will be filled temporarily by one of his senior assistants...
...Church (written with Norman Pittenger and still used in Episcopal lay teaching), plus some other writing and his law doctorate, and got a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary without taking a single course in theology. In 1952, Bishop Horace Donegan offered him the long-vacant post of dean of St. John the Divine Cathedral...
...true that Harvard is under considerable pressure from the City of Cambridge to increase the supply housing by developing the Sachs Estate which has been vacant and unused for more than 15 years. City planners have pinpointed this property for "221-d-3" low-income housing for relocation of families to be displaced by the Inner Belt. A meeting has already been called between the City and the University to discuss this possibility. It has been pointed out that the Inner Belt dislocation will be so terrible in Cambridg that the City might well take the Sachs Estate for this...
...average subscriber, the profile gives a few fascinating glimpses of that small group outside the mainstream: the 3% who serve Irish whisky, the 5% who own organs, the 2% who drink bottled water. We worry about the 6% who have no life insurance. What do the 1% who own vacant lots plan to do with their property? And will the 2% who have only a grade-school education go on to higher learning...
...couple of hours walking through the ghettos, accompanied by plain clothesmen and one of his aides. Tanned and in shirt sleeves, the Mayor walks unannounced into the offices of community organizations and businesses, stopping to answer questions, to clean up litter, or to note down a rubbish-filled vacant lot or a particularly dirty street. Residents are only too eager to show him their problems. On one walk a few weeks ago in Harlem, a group of teen-agers ran up to the Mayor waving a dead rat, one of them shouting: "Man, Mayor, this is where the clean...