Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Think back to the residential components of the renewal program. We did not wait for the riots and the disorders of 1965, 1966, and 1967 to start work on the poorer sections of Boston and the Negro sections of Boston, which were badly in need of renewal and rehabilitation. In 1960 we made the Washington Park Project a matter of first priority. Contrary to the lamentations of some in the last campaign, thousands of new apartment houses, low income "221d3" apartment houses were built; literally hundreds of individual rehabilitation jobs have been completed or are underway; a new YMCA...
...third aspect of the program which I set out to accomplish in 1959 led to my fight for the sales tax, not because I wanted to make enemies with the tax, but because it was the only tax which could be enacted to bring about some state assistance with some of the great burden, since no one would then put in an income tax. It was passed...
...have now set about funding it. That's a very important piece of legislation for Boston. Admittedly it benefits Boston more than some of the more affluent communities, but that is proper. The distribution procedure now will pay some attention to need. That's the third part of the program; tying together the three are the federal funds. We have been quite successful. Contrary to published reports, Boston has fared better by any radstick than any other city in America with Federal funds...
...major changes. Even a minor HPC request--to note the possibility of Independent Study in the course catalogue--was reportedly met with vigorous objections from Registrar Robert Shenton. The Independent Study issue is still open and HPC President Henry Norr is unwilling to bury his proposal that the program be opened to students in all rank lists, sophomores as well as juniors and seniors. But that proposal is likely never to reach the Faculty floor; several administators have been suggesting that Independent Study is already a kind of iceberg and that if the Faculty knew what was going...
...Institute of Politics in the John F. Kennedy School of Government will expand its Student Program this spring, adding five new study groups and an array of guests...