Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, ll:30-noon). "Discovery Visits New York," Part 1, to explore Manhattan's Lower East Side, Washington Square, Chinatown, the Central Park Zoo and Yorkville through the eyes of the city's children...
...Captain E. T. Barnette pushed a cargo-laden stern-wheeler ten miles up central Alaska's Chena River, halted when the waters became too shallow, and established a trading post from which, with the gold rush one year later, sprang the city of Fairbanks. Barnette should have settled on higher ground...
Over hundreds of square miles, central Alaska looked from the air like a gigantic paddy field. The Chena, whose flood level is pegged at 12.1 ft., on the fifth day of rain crested at 18.8 ft. at Fairbanks. The downtown shopping district was deluged. By Mayor H. A. ("Red") Boucher's count, 75% of the city's businesses took major damage. Virtually every building in the city was awash. Volunteers sandbagged St. Joseph's Hospital until patients could be evacuated. The Alaska-67 exposition, celebrating the centennial of the territory's purchase, was severely damaged...
...provide the means in Vietnam for rapid and efficient access to printed materials in the national language. Not only are university libraries small and texts scarce but book collections that do exist require fluency in a foreign language on the part of the user. The 20,000 volume central library at Hue, assembled with great difficulty, is more than 50 in French, Chinese and English. Moreover students without fluency in a foreign language are restricted in their programs by the fact that several courses taught by foreign professors are given in the native language of the instructor...
...money and new sources of it are vital needs in the improvement of Vietnamese higher education. New construction programs should be based on a concept of centralization which permits and enhances the use of scarce personnel as well as materials. Centralized systems of translation of lectures, new central libraries and text book reproduction are high priority needs for universities. New construction programs should facilitate needed changes in the process of higher education as exemplified in the way that completion of the central facility for the combined Faculty of Arts and Sciences will make it possible for the university system...