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City Councilor Barbara Ackerman last week claimed partial responsibility for initiating rent control. As chairman of the council's Committee on Rent Control, she is supervising a report on rent control and its effects that will appear sometime next year...
Following the usual split, Councilors Barbara Ackerman, Francis H. Duehay '55, Saundra Graham and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci voted for the curbs, while independents Clem, Daniel J. Clinton, Thomas W. Danehy, Leonard J. Russell and Walter J. Sullivan opposed all but the weakest of the petitions...
...senses and indirectly by instruments," explains Lionni, "while those of the second, far more mysterious and elusive, come to our knowledge only indirectly, through images, words, or other symbolic signs." One discernible group of plants is the Tirillus, woodland greenery found in places like the tundras of Ackerman's Land on the equally fictitious Borloff Straits. The species Tirillus vulgaris resembles bread sticks; but a variety, T. mimeticus, assumes the shape and color of its surroundings and thus is permanently invisible. Even more unusual is T. silvador, which grows in the high Andes and emits shrill whistles on clear...
...Bruce A. Ackerman, Yale Law School: "The court will accept benevolent quotas. The basic idea will be that it is permissible for Government to act to redress past grievances...
...amendment now stipulates that the city manager will make the initial appointments, with the commission submitting recommendations for subsequent appointments. City Councilor Barbara Ackerman said yesterday City Manager James L. Sullivan will advertise to recruit members...