Word: branching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coast, covering some 40,000 acres, will absorb the first wave of urbanization. Here will be a city, 31 miles south of overcrowded Newport Beach, and the beginning of a coastline dotted with beach clubs and marinas, ocean-centered communities and resort hotels. At the center will be the branch of the University of California on a 1,000-acre campus acting as a gigantic hub with spokes extruding into the surrounding residential area. Vast green stretches and extensive recreation areas, with industries scattered among them for easy accessibility (Ford Aeronutronic and Collins Radio have already moved in), will break...
...thought he saw a way to do better still. Hearing that his University of Illinois classmate, Charles Luckman, had been fired from his $300,000-a-year job as president of the U.S. branch of Lever Bros., Pereira could not resist the chance to recruit an old pal. Off went a letter to Chuck, accompanied by a package containing the plans Luckman had made as his final school project?for a monastery. "For 20 years I've had my eye on this guy," wrote Pereira to Luckman. "That's why I've saved this. I think he's mature enough...
When the regents for the University of California asked him to find a 1,000-acre site for a new branch of the university, Pereira and his staff spent four months researching the nature of the university throughout history. Eventually he took the regents on a tour of 23 sites, ending with the one he liked best: Irvine Ranch. Both the regents and the Irvine Co. agreed. And Irvine, impressed by Pereira's design ideas decided to let him try his hand at a master plan for the entire ranch...
...basic strength is those 300,000 lower-class guys who are ready to mob, rob, steal and kill," boasts Cecil Moore, 48, head of the Philadelphia branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...first automatic damper controls for furnaces, Honeywell grew and diversified steadily over the years by improving and elaborating on the basic principle of automatic control established by Butz. For years it plowed its sales dollars back into research to make better home controls, in World War II began to branch out in earnest by making Air Force automatic pilots and a radar sensitive enough to record so much as a twitch in a pitch-black room...