Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight-lane Inner Belt high-way, which is still being fought by Cambridge politicians, will probably cut through the City several blocks east of Central Square, displacing between 3000 and 5000 residents...
...summer of 1939, a few short weeks before Hitler's invasion of Poland, Harvard historian William L. Langer was preparing to leave for a year's study in Mexico and Central America when he was contacted by the University Librarian, Keyes DeWitt Metcalf. Metcalf was anxious to purchase for Harvard the personal papers of a Russian exile then living in Mexico, and he asked Langer to represent Harvard in the negotiations...
Dishing It Out. The Americans had barely savored one of their biggest victories of the year, however, when a North Vietnamese battalion pinned down a U.S. airborne company in the Central Highlands and gave them a bad mauling. After three banzai charges that brought the North Vietnamese within grenade range, the fighting became so close and intense that air strikes and artillery could not be called in. The Americans lost 76 men, including four of the company's five officers. But they dished it out in spite of their losses. Enemy dead were estimated...
...Moscow group is frankly nostalgic-and, since the past is most memorably represented in the Soviet Union by its cupolaed churches and moldering mosques, their imagery tends to be religious. This is particularly evident in the glittering panels of Dimitri Plavinsky, 30, a painter who has traveled extensively in Central Asia, where, he writes, "I came to know the magic voice of silence communicated by the crumbling walls of mosques, mazes of deserted cities and the intricate patterns of Asian mosaics...
There are twice as many tennis players in the U.S. (10 million) as there are people in Ecuador, (5,000,000), and the list of participants on a Sunday at the courts in Manhattan's Central Park is longer than the membership rolls (500) at all of Ecuador's five tennis clubs combined. But the U.S. Davis Cup team, which in eight years has managed to lose to Mexico, Italy (twice), Spain and Brazil, was not about to let statistics stand in the way. In Guayaquil last week, a four-man U.S. squad headed by Arthur Ashe-ranked...