Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those interested in further facts re your PEOPLE item [Aug. 26], here they are: In 1960 1 offered $1,500,000 to the city of New York for the purpose of building a sidewalk cafe at the east end of Central Park South, near Fifth Avenue. Every relevant department of the city accepted the gift. I deposited over $800,000 with the city, as good faith, where it remained until recently without earning interest. I paid an architect fee of over $100,000 to Edward Stone...
...entire divisions of North Vietnamese regulars whose apparent aim is to invade Quang Tri province. So far the Reds have failed. Over the past few months, Hanoi's hordes have shifted away from their old infiltration route, the Ho Chi Minh trail, which empties into the isolated Central Highlands. Instead, more and more have been striking directly southward into the populous coastal plain (see map). The aim of the Marines' "Operation Prairie" is to cut those arteries from the DMZ and push the Reds so far west that they will once again be forced to use the trail...
...opponents of the eight-lane highway, the governor's announcement was an important victory and a significant setback for the Brookline-Elm St. route. This route, fought for years by the City, threatens to go straight through Cambridge's largest commercial district -- Central Square -- and uproot between 3000 and 5000 residents...
...Portland-Albany St. alignment for the highway. The designers of this route, a private group of planners called the Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt, claim that it will displace both fewer jobs and families than the Brookline-Elm route. The Portland-Albany St. path is located East of Central Square just beyond the outer edge of the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...several units which comprise a Center would share certain central resources like the main library, the theater-concert hall, and the spectator sports center, resources which must be accessible to every student or which will draw some students from each unit. Ideally, many of of these facilities would also be used by citizens who are not enrolled in the schools, thus further integrating schools and community...