Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HHFA Director, Weaver followed an essentially inner-city-directed policy rather than attempting to deal with the metropolis as an entity. That approach has attracted criticism. Argues Harvard Business School Economist Raymond Vernon: "To talk about rebuild ing central cities for re-use by people there now is a good political move and a bad social one. Our Eastern cities were built around 1800. What a remarkable coincidence it would be if the density established for those patterns of life happened to be right for 1965!" To such barbs, Weaver retorts frostily: "I'm all for letting people...
...Vernon and Gladys
...second act is peopled by refugees from The Threepenny Opera, both as characters and actors. Peter Johnson and Susan Channing sneer at each other across two inches of mutual nose. Leland Moss stalks and glowers while Vernon Blackman, as the smallest and most industrious of the Cockney quartet, loots the tambourine. Erhardt's direction keeps things moving although the first two acts seem hampered by the shallow sets, forcing all movement into one plane...
Into the Brain. Because the technique involves drastic brain surgery before the electrical current can do its work, explain Psychiatrist Frank Ervin and Boston City Hospital's Neurosurgeon Vernon H. Mark, it is only for the occasional patient whose condition is severe enough to justify the heroic procedure. But it offers more hope of substantial surcease than any other treatment now available...
...national park, Utah's Canyonlands. National Seashores have been set aside on Cape Cod, New York's Fire Island, California's Point Reyes and Texas' Padre Island. Protests from an aroused public stopped Maryland from installing a sewage disposal plant across the Potomac from Mount Vernon. Rainbow Bridge in Utah, the largest natural bridge in the world, would have had its underpinnings gnawed away by a dam-created lake had not conservationists made a case...