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- DIED. Paul Ylvisaker, 70, educator and urban planner who
- chaired President Lyndon Johnson's Task Force on Cities in the
- mid-1960s; of a heart attack; in Washington. As a government
- official and as an educator at Harvard, Princeton and Yale,
- Ylvisaker advocated funneling federal funds to social programs
- that helped ameliorate poverty in cities. He served as New
- Jersey's first state commissioner of community affairs from 1967
- through 1970, and helped plan and administer the construction
- of the revolutionary Meadowlands sports complex, which includes
- a stadium, an arena and a racetrack in the heart of a marshland.
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