Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pitch was disarmingly simple. If the superrich could set up tax-free trusts and foundations, why couldn't the moderately wealthy also build cozy little shel ters from income and inheritance taxes...
M.I.T., for example, last spring announced a program to build housing for its personnel and low-income Cambridge residents; Harvard is now preparing a comparable program. The City government has speeded up planning of several housing project that were long hanging in the air. Yet these hopeful signs do not mean that the plans will come to reality; continued political pressure is required for that...
...require approval of plans or zoning changes by the City Council. And it is almost axiomatic that even if everyone in a city is in favor of more low-income housing, just about no one wants a housing project in his neighborhood. If a zoning change is requested to build a housing project on any given site, it's a good bet that thirty neighbors of the site will come down to the council to tell them why the project would ruin the neighborhood. It is difficult to build a countervailing force to such opposition; no one is assured that...
...housing convention might have been one force to help build it, but its battle for rent control convinced many of its members that rent control is the most urgently-needed measure. The loss of the battle appears to have induced many to switch to referendum campaign where their fight for the cherished rent control can continue. Whether the housing convention can lure these supporters back, if only for an evening, to back for example, approval of a housing site is unclear. It may be impossible, for rent control remains the most attractive issue...
...Cola travelogue, complete with the familiar dialectic of Old and New: large cathedrals, ornate Spanish architecture, monuments and statuary versus shots of the people gaily swinging through the busy streets of Brazil's modern cities, qua qua. And there to help them is American business, working and playing to build a strong, free Western Hemisphere. The whole gang's on hand: Coke, Ford, General Motors, Shell, Texaco, Esso, Frank Sinatra, even Helena Rubinstein with American beauty standards. But the spoken narration puts this post-card Brazil into perspective, reciting figures on the present-day poverty of the Brazilian people...