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White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) staff members (center) work with equipment at a cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Techo Housing Project in Bogotá, Colombia. John J. Cochran (left) and Harold D. Haley (center) crouch over equipment; White House Stenographer, Jack Romagna, sits at right; an unidentified man stands at far right. President John F. Kennedy attended the ceremony to mark the construction of homes and schools built in Techo (a suburb of Bogotá) through the Alliance for Progress (La Alianza para el Progreso). Colombian military police and various attendees of the ceremony stand in the background. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]