Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth movers told of similar large-scale building projects under way in the hearts of scores of other U.S. cities. Whole blocks of old buildings, acres of overcrowded downtown areas, were being ripped out. In the gaps, new buildings were beginning to rise, units of planned medical, residential and civic centers, set among broad avenues and spacious parks. Examples: ¶ In New York, a $40 million Columbus Circle project, almost finished, will include a 10,000-seat Coliseum, 528 apartments and a 20-story office building. Also under construction: ten giant residential groups, replacing older parts of the city...
...Dallas, a new $7,000,000 air-conditioned exposition hall and civic center, including a 10,000-seat domed arena, a theater and meeting rooms, will be finished next summer. ¶ In New Orleans, a new eleven-acre civic center will include a $8.3 million city hall, to be completed next August, a state office building, a library and possibly a court building...
Behind this rebuilding and beautifying of U.S. city centers is more than an aesthetic urge. Projects such as Detroit's civic center, Kansas City's $16.5 million rehabilitation of its Quality Hill region, and Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle development...
...same day, speaking at a civic reception in Bangalore. India, Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev added some more information and a helping of propaganda. The experiment, said Khrushchev, used a "minimum" amount of atomic material to create a "maximum" explosion. His interpreter said the blast was equal to "a million tons of TNT." but some Russian reporters insisted that Khrushchev said "more than one million tons." Then, after announcing that "Russia will never be first to abuse this power." Khrushchev clapped his hands above his head to lead the applause for his own statement. After the applause he went...
...romp with his two-year-old granddaughter, Tedde, daughter of his 28-year-old daughter, Mrs. Frank Thompson. (His two sons, Ted in the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., and Bob at Denison University, are unmarried.) After dinner there is more work: meetings at the church, civic committees and visiting ill parishioners. He has no hobbies-apparently he needs none. The gentle calm in his blue-grey eyes, in his slow, broad smile, in his unhurried passage through a 16-hour day, baffles those who know him only casually. Says he: "Calmness is rooted in faith in God, in yourself...