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Yorty showed no awareness that people were fed up with growing pollution, traffic congestion and haphazard development. He continued to refer to environmentalists as "kooks." When Bradley proposed a moratorium on highway building and the start of a rapid transit system, Yorty objected that highways "really move a lot of automobiles very efficiently." When Bradley urged a halt to drilling for oil on beaches, Yorty replied: "We ought to do everything we can to develop...
...candidates in this nonparty election are no less violently opposed on impersonal issues. Bradley wants to limit Los Angeles to a population of 4,000,000 (it now has almost 3,000,000); Yorty opposes sharp restrictions on growth. Bradley favors a moratorium on highway building; Yorty argues for continued building of highways, which he says "really move a lot of automobiles very efficiently." Bradley thinks oil drilling off Los Angeles beaches was started partly by "deceit and deception" and should now be banned; Yorty insists that "we ought to do everything we can to develop...
Last year, for example, Colorado acted to prevent overbuilding on its slopes, and California declared a moratorium on all development within 1,000 ft. of its entire Pacific coastline. Now two more states have just taken bold steps to save their land...
After a decade of turmoil, the Social Relations Department ended its graduate program in clinical psychology in Fall 1967. This February, President Bok placed a moratorium on admissions to the program which replaced it, Clinical Psychology and Public Practice. Despite a well recognized need for clinical experience for abnormal psychologists, the death of these two programs ends most of the clinical psychology at Harvard. What killed...
...President Bok that the University either increase its commitment to the program and restructure it by placing it in one school with interdisciplinary ties, or drop the program altogether. Unexpectedly, Bok chose to drop it. Unwilling to increase University support for an historically unstable program, Bok placed a moratorium on admissions to CP3, effectively killing...