Word: adds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light of this it isn't Harvard or the academic community which has a housing problem, as Mr. Pusey suggests. It is the poor and the elderly of Cambridge, some of whom, I might add, are Harvard and MIT pensioners. We have in no way excluded Harvard from its position as a citizen of Cambridge. Rather we suggest that Harvard is failing very seriously its responsibilities as a citizen of Cambridge. Mr. Whitlock's letter noted that 4,400 undergraduates live on campus, and an additional 1,000 in Harvard housing. Where, we ask, do the other 10,000 Harvard...
...loans-to $10 billion in the next five years. Of that sum, large chunks would go to improve education, wipe out illiteracy and modernize agriculture. McNamara insisted that the time has come for the bank to invest more money in family planning. Unless checked, he said, overpopulation will add 3 billion people to the world before the century ends, and this crush of humans could undo most projected benefits...
Like many of the man's longtime friends, Safeway Stores Chairman Robert A. Magowan marvels at the way Jack Straus "still thinks of Macy's in the same terms that most men think of wives and honor." Or, he might add, of family. One of the great U.S. retailing baronies, R. H. Macy & Co. has thrived 'under three generations of Strauses, none of them more successful than "Mr. Jack," who has held sway over Macy's headquarters in Manhattan's Herald Square for three decades...
Harvard officials, representatives of the Kennedy Library, the City government, and various planning agencies have all agreed that the site, now owned by the Baird Atomic Co., should be developed for commercial use to add to Cambridge's tax base. But some observers, particularly Kennedy Library Architect I. M. Pei, understandably want to assure that buildings bordering on the Library are aesthetically appropriate as well as a boon to City taxpayers...
Optional equipment will cost an average of 3% more, which will add at least another $10 to the price of 1969 models. Automatic transmission, installed on 92% of all Chrysler-made cars sold last year, for example, is listed at $223.20 instead of $216.85, and radios, another favorite option, will cost a couple of dollars more...