Word: projects
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...betrayal" and "a rape of the will of the Senate." Vowed one: "We're not going to lay over for the old men in the conference committees, who are in league with the old men in the House." A filibuster was promptly launched against the $210 million project by Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, who opposes the SST on cost and ecological grounds. He was joined by Democratic presidential prospect Edmund Muskie. Republican Leader Hugh Scott marshaled a vote to choke off the filibuster, but it fell far short of the two-thirds vote required...
...their gift horse, a committee of 15 students from Amherst, Hampshire, Smith, Mount Holyoke and the University of Massachusetts decided last week to accept $25,000 from John D. Rockefeller III. He had offered to pay expenses for a student-faculty study to determine what kind of social-improvement project might be carried out in the Connecticut River valley (TIME, Dec. 21). The students had refused to take the money until they could check out Rockefeller's motives-64 is, after all, quite a bit over...
Rockefeller backed up his conclusion with an offer of $25,000 to a consortium of students and faculty members from Hampshire and the nearby campuses of Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Amherst and the University of Massachusetts. The money was to pay expenses while the consortium decided on a social-improvement project for the Connecticut River valley and enlisted the aid of local firms in carrying it out. "It is right," Rockefeller added, "for older people to be pushed...
...National Institute of Health is funding the research project...
...concept of resident control, in fact, was doomed from the start-a glorious idea that simply couldn't work. The major benefits from CDA have not diffused to all neighborhood residents-although the Cambridge project is the second smallest in the country. The ones who benefit from Model Cities services are the aggressive types, the go-getters, the volunteers-precisely the ones who need assistance the least...