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Most Baltimoreans, who regard their Casbah as a civic asset, were relieved that it would not disappear entirely. "A well-planned city should cater to all sorts of impulses," City Planner David A. Wallace once noted. "Though the Block's appeal is to the saucier impulses, it adds a very needed liveliness which many cities lack. Baltimore should be grateful...
...contention that the move had damaged the prestige of the Arboretum, the Court replied that "the prestige was not...a capital asset which could not be expended [under the terms of the trust by which Harvard runs the Arboretum]." The opinion said there was nothing to "show or suggest that the Corporation was acting to increase the prestige of Harvard University as an end in itself...
Before the Brown game, coach Henry Lamar said he thought that the defense was the Yardlings' major asset. However, the line was impotent against Brown's running attack and the secondary wasn't much better...
...made a pretense for the last two years of hunting for a site for the new Boston English High School, the "keystone" of any new building program. Gartland has repeatedly suggested a BRA-owned site in Roxbury; it is accessible, available, and the new school would be an asset to the new housing development it would join. But no one listens to Gartland...
...most obvious asset is the 92,579 votes she carried away last week. She won 19,523 more votes than the front-running city council candidate on the same ballot. Sixty-four percent of the voters chose Mrs. Hicks, while the school committee runner-up tallied less than 50 per cent. These figures indicate that she received large number of bullet votes: ballets with only her named checked among the School Committee candidates...