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...CAMBODIA. One of the greatest kings of early Buddhism was Cambodia's Jayavarman VII, the builder of Angkor Wat. Today leftist Prince Sihanouk, as Cambodia's Chief of State and High Protector of the Buddhist religion, assiduously cultivates the god-king role. Following the Buddhist road of the middle, intones Sihanouk, he means to be halfway between capitalism and Marxism at home and neutralist abroad...
Rising about 250 feet above the ground, the building will be Cambridge's tallest. Construction was originally scheduled to begin last June, but was postponed when negotiations between the builder, the Beacon Construction Company in Brookline, and a prospective operator, Howard Johnson, collapsed...
...process involves a delicate meld of drawing board and bulldozer, budget and ballot box, bludgeon and crystal ball. Technically, every time an enterprising builder tears down an old building and replaces it with a new one, it is urban renewal. But only in recent years has the process been conceived in terms of an overall plan to reshape the city...
...products, schedule complex production runs, and solve design problems. Before making investment decisions, many bankers and brokers consult Standard & Poor's Compustat system, whose computer has standardized and "memorized" 30 financial details about 625 corporations, including sales, cash flow and price/earnings ratio of stocks. A New Jersey builder recently relied on a computer to choose the house plans, prices and financing arrangements for a large suburban project. Even Kentucky horse breeders depend on a computer, primed with race results and the physical characteristics of 200,000 thoroughbreds, to serve as a breeding guide...
Romney refused to don "the Goldwater albatross," concentrated on his record (he turned Michigan's chronic deficit into a $57.1 million surplus), thus did even better in Detroit's Democratic Wayne County than he had two years ago. In doing so, the canny car builder denied a ride on Lyndon's coattails to Democratic Congressman Neil Staeb'er (who was held to about 53% of the Wayne County vote, v. Johnson's 71%). It was enough to let Romney ramble, and he may yet ramble a lot further. Other key gubernatorial races: > >Republican Daniel Jackson...