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...squeeze, however, comes from above as well as below. Model Cities is funded by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Nixon administration has wrought a reversal of policy within HUD. In line with "New Federalism"-and also in line with lower priorities for social welfare legislation-HUD has increasingly accented the role of city government in CDA decision-making, as opposed to neighborhood action. Cambridge, which at least on paper provides for more local control than any other Model City in the country, was a logical target for the re-alignment process...
What hath Sarris wrought...
...Bengal, he described the scene: "No vulture, no dog, and even no insects were to be found anywhere. Just heaps of human bodies and carcasses." More than two weeks after the storm had shrieked across the low-lying Ganges River Delta, the enormity of the havoc wrought by its 120-m.p.h. winds and 20-ft. waves could still only be sensed, not measured. Toward week's end, some 6,000 Ansar militiamen and volunteers trudged into the flatlands to begin burying, for $2 a corpse, the rapidly decomposing bodies claimed by what Pakistanis have already begun to call...
Under N.E.M., the Hungarians have curtailed the dictatorial powers of the central planners and placed economic decision making in the hands of local plant managers. The plan has wrought a mini-miracle since its launching at the beginning of 1968. Next only to East Germany, Hungary runs the East bloc's most successful economy. Industrial output has increased 33% in the past five years, and real income has risen...
...Sesame Street really wrought profound changes in commercial TVor merely defensive cosmetics? Says a Workshop executive, who was formerly a network programmer: "The networks appointed the veeps to keep the mothers' groups quiet. None of the men has anything to do with buying kids' TV shows. Listen, the networks are delighted with Sesame Street. They figure if it's around, they won't really have to do anything." Sociologist Wilbur Schramm, whose specialty is communications, agrees: "The media dare small changes, but not fundamental ones; their whole impact is to retain the status...