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Although the planners refrain from commenting on individual bids, they point out that most of the preliminary plans violate zoning regulations. The development proposed by Cambridge attorney Francis J. Roche exceeds the maximum residential density, and all the plans but Harvard's exceed the permissible gross floor area. In the estimates for parking space, the Board finds additional discrepancies: even Harvard, which makes the best showing, falls 215 per cent short of the number of spaces desired. And the Board concludes, pessimistically, that it may take twenty years to fill all the proposed offices, stores, and apartments...
Konrad Adenauer has so often changed his mind about retiring as West German Chancellor that his repeated private promise to step down next autumn was usually greeted with the cynical refrain that "fall will be a little late this year." But last week, on a nationwide German television hookup, der Alte at last stated publicly that he would step down "on schedule." Declared Adenauer: "I have often said that I will seek my retirement in October or November 1963. What I have declared will remain unchanged." Bonn politicians took heart. Not once in the program did he mention the word...
...more. Congress is the final authority in many ways and pretty much a law unto itself. If the members are not allowed to speak out on abuses, then who can? Couple this inability to speak out with a tendency on the part of the entire body of Congress to refrain from sufficient self-discipline and a searching investigation of its own affairs, and you have what I feel is an untenable situation. We consistently denounce waste and duplication in the executive branch of the Government. Oratory abounds concerning the proliferation of bureaucratic agencies, their expensive habits, and so forth...
...these monsters, pausing before them for ponderous comments like "Oh, the mysteries of life." It is not that the light touch is beyond Del Castillo. A felicitous phrase occasionally escapes him: they had "the habit of sprinkling theft and graft with holy water." It is just that he cannot refrain from constantly clubbing his characters senseless. In a matter of three pages, he manages to accuse a Spanish small businessman of "cynicism," "pharisaism." "obduracy," "unctuousness," "cravenness," "priggishness" and "cruelty." The reader's sympathy mulishly goes out to a fellow so abused by his author...
...only compromise Albee allowed--and an unimportant one--concerns the tune to which the play's title is intermittently sung as a refrain. It was intended to use "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" from Walt Disney's movie of The Three little Pigs. But since this song is still copyrighted and would have to be paid for week, the expense was avoided by using instead the folksong "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush", which is in the public domain...