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A large amount of information on the body size of United States Army personnel, both men and women, has been collected during several anthropometric surveys carried out between 1946 and 1977. Changes in the body site of Army men between 1946 and 1966 and of Army women between 1946 and 1977 may be examined in an analysis of these anthropometric data. The data also may be utilized to define the contrasts in body size between Army men and women for application in the design and sizing of clothing and in the human engineering of equipment and materiel intended for use by both Army men and women.

The study which follows attempts to trace, in a necessarily limited fashion, the evolving use of eminent domain on behalf of private interest groups throughout the last century and a half of American legal history. Part One of the study traces the broadening scope of eminent domain in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the direct use of eminent domain by private interest groups as a key element in the increasing breadth of the power. Part Two delineates the process whereby one modern private interest group-an informal aggregation of American colleges and universities-succeeded in acquiring access to the states'power of eminent domain through Section 112 of the federal urban renewal program. Although Section 112 has received surprisingly little attention from students of the urban renewal program," within ten years of its inception the statute had been used to generate three quarters of a billion dollars worth of federal matching money for participating communities and to acquire thousands of acres of privately owned urban land for university expansion.' Part Three of the present work seeks to trace the process whereby the city of Nashville, Tennessee, sought to participate in just such a Section 112 urban renewal project. The case study of Nashville's experience with Section 112 focuses upon the process by which one community resolved to commit its power of eminent domain to assist the expansion of a private university and the tensions within the community produced by that decision. Although Nashville's experience with Section 112 is by no means necessarily typical of those of the hundreds of other cities that participated in the program, it would seem to indicate that in at least one community, the federal urban renewal process combined with local circumstances to cause those persons who were affected most directly by the project to have the least practical influence in the political and administrative decisions that were eventually to lead to the loss of their property.Moreover, ...