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Apparently, the Authority did not expect any wide-spread opposition to its plans from people living in Donnelly. Since the CRA had merely a skeleton professional staff of five only token measures toward "communication and participation" with Donnelly were possible; very little CRA money was budgeted for getting grassroots support among the residents. The opposition which erupted at the public hearings took the CRA by surprise. Members of the CRA were quick to blame the resistance on a few rabblerousers, but the opposition reflected the way most of the people in Donnelly felt about the CRA project...
Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles announced his resignation during the Fall. Bolles had built the Harvard athletic program into one of the Ivy League's finest during his 13 years as director, and had been instrumental in establishing the Ivy League as a competitive conference. A wide-spread search was conducted for his successor, and informed sources indicate the list of candidates has now been narrowed. An appointment should be made by March...
...Freedom Rides, which sought to alert the general public to the wide-spread violation of Negroes' civil rights, have done their job. Students are now turning to the more tedious, less publicized task of using this re-awakened public consciousness to secure for Negroes equal opportunities in housing, employment, and education...
...tenure at Harvard, Keppel has frequently advocated a wide-spread program of federal aid to education. Most significantly, he has favored a vast network of nationwide research and development facilities to spur original research...
...therefore, toward the goal of economic efficiency that architecture must educate its students, and not toward the "too wide-spread illogical formalism" which regards architecture only as a "decorative fact...