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...gigantic terminal east of City Hall on Market Street, which will unite the city's two suburban railroads in a single terminal, and also achieve one of the basic goals of city planning?the separation of wheeled traffic from pedestrian. Bacon's plan also includes widening the sidewalks of Chestnut Street, the city's other main shopping thoroughfare, and making a traffic-free mall of it, with little electric trolleys to carry shoppers...
...Manhattan setting, the author contrives to make a number of cherished American goals-including sex, booze, wealth, social position, world travel and Broadway fame-sound dull and unprofitable. Glibly cynical, he views his moral wasteland with no moral outrage. He even takes a determined new crack at that old chestnut that has been knocked about for decades in prep school dormitories and Greenwich Village walk-ups: should an Artist give up his Integrity for Commercial Success? Positively not, Mr. Kauffmann...
...This week tutoring projects, variously combining slum children of many scholastic shortcomings with tutors ranging in age up to young housewives, are in full cry everywhere from Boston's Chestnut Hill to North western University to San Francisco. Cleveland's "Summer '64 Tutor Corps" is probably the nation's most effective application of the idea. There 535 high school students are tutoring without pay in 62 locations around the city. More than half of the tutors (average age: 17) are girls, and each tutor works about 15 hours a week under paid supervisors from Cleveland...
...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). The National Professional Grass Court Tennis championships, videotaped from the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...Chestnut had hoped to convince the sheriff to accept property bonds instead of cash to avoid the need for filing in the federal court, 169 miles away in Mobile. The sheriff, however, has insisted on cash...