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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Weaver, LL.D., U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
...Nation, the lectures bring either a scholar or public leader to award each year to discuss the "essential of free government and the duties of the citizens." Lecturers in recent years included Nelson Rockefeller, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Robert Weaver...
...able to breathe some new life into the cities [March 4], especially in business and commercial sectors, but Robert Weaver and his successors will eventually have to face the fact that the city as a residential area is dead...
...empire is certain to expand. Says Weaver: "There are certain functions which must in time be placed in the department. The problem now is to identify these and encourage the Administration to sponsor reorganization plans to bring them about." One big, politically sensitive area that will almost certainly be identified as HUD property is Sargent Shriver's poverty-oriented community action program...
Understandably, Weaver has picked academic experts and Government careerists for several top jobs. His Under Secretary is Robert C. Wood, a brilliant Massachusetts Institute of Technology expert on metropolitan government, who helped draft major task-force reports on cities for the President. Assistant Secretary for Metropolitan Development is Charles M. Haar, 45, a Harvard law professor who headed the President's task force on natural beauty...