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ALLEN KLEIN Mount Vernon...
...farmer when you get through with your job down in Washington," a guest once remarked. "Brother," beamed the President, "I hope, I hope." Such a hope has buoyed many a President since March 9, 1797, when George Washington at last made his way homeward through cheering throngs to Mount Vernon. But as Washington was the first to discover, obscurity is impossible for an ex-President. Though Washington settled back easily into his planter's life, visitors thought nothing of inviting themselves to dinner, and Mount Vernon's twelve bedrooms were rarely empty. Not even death removed the aura...
...Nothing like this Region Study has even been done," declared Raymond Vernon, professor of International Trade and Investment, and director of the Metropolitan Region Study. "We have spent $600,000 in grants from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefellers and a staff of more than 40 professional people have worked over three years on the project...
...regional planning groups in the United States. "Although we concentrate on the New York area, our survey will be used by city planners everywhere. We can give planners a good idea of which forces in a city they can change, and which they'll just have to live with," Vernon pointed...
...first two books in the nine volume study dealt with changes in the internal structure of New York; others will deal with the city's relation to changes occurring in the nation and the world. Next fall, Vernon's summary of the survey's findings, Metropolls 1985, will appear. "Our function is simply to inform," Vernon said. "We have found certain advantages in keeping normative notions out of our work...