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...Edward Logue, 46, of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, is both the most persuasive defender of urban renewal and the chief mover behind several of its successes. In New Haven's Wooster Square and Court Street projects, he proved that old neighborhoods can be rehabilitated, thus helping to end the indiscriminate razing that had hitherto prevailed. He applied his New Haven techniques to the "new Boston," is now running for the mayoralty. Urban renewal would work better, says Logue, if the Federal Government gave "more dough, less advice." Logue would also decentralize city government so that neighborhoods could make many...
RICHARD T. GORE Wooster, Ohio...
CARLI CREMEANS Wooster, Ohio...
Weaver as HHFA head, is to rehabilitate existing inner-city homes instead of building anew, using federal money to buy property outright or to subsidize landlords' improvements. One outstanding example is New Haven's Wooster Square, where more than 1,000 rundown buildings were spruced up and the neighborhood's original residential character retained without the upheaval of a new project. Yet this New Haven project cost the Federal Government $19.3 million, an average of $130 per city resident. At that per capita rate of expenditure, creating a Wooster Square in every U.S. metropolitan area would cost...
...widowed mother moved the family to Chautauqua, N.Y., where he became the first youth in the county to win the Boy Scouts' God and Country Award. He was raised a Presbyterian, but gradually became interested in Quaker beliefs, particularly pacifism, while a student at Wooster College. He later studied at a Presbyterian seminary in Pittsburgh and at the University of Edinburgh, and joined the Society of Friends in 1959. Since 1962 he had been executive secretary of the Stony Run Friends Meeting in Baltimore. In recent months, Morrison had. been deeply disturbed about U.S. bombing in Viet Nam, although...