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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...properties. But he admits that "results fell substantially short of expectations." Among other things, he has sold off a valuable block-square plot in New York's financial district, part of his Southwest Washington redevelopment project, and a San Francisco site where Webb & Knapp intended to construct apartments. Last week he dealt off his right to buy Manhattan's Drake Hotel, and a British buyer was reportedly dickering for Zeckendorfs Chatham. Considering that his revenues from the Astor, Manhattan and Taft are being passed out to creditors, the only New York hotel that Zeckendorf appears to have free...
...measure would direct the Metropolitan District Commission to acquire and operate a liberty ship from the federal government's "mothball fleet" and construct an incinerator aboard it. The ship would be loaded with garbage during the day and, at night, would move out to sea to burn and dispose...
...Humanities, Problems of the same dimension do not exist in the proposed new Humanities area since there already are appropriate courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences sections of the existing General Education Program. There is, however, a special challenge facing those who would construct courses at the center of the spectrum in this area, where literature and art, ideas and beliefs, may be seen in conjunction with social and political phenomena...
...overseer of the war in the South. Recruited largely from the peasantry, Giap's 400,000-man, Russian-equipped army is closer to the people than the party. His 27 divisions, decked out in eggshell-white uniforms with green badges, help build public works, even bake bricks and construct their own barracks. Naturally, the army also has the guns...
Second, PBK should construct the requirement of "good character" broadly enough to include extracurricular activities which reveal intellectual capacities well employed. Good acting, good writing, good artwork and music-making, good politicking, and good service of one's fellows, can all be evidence at least as clear as a cipher in the registrar's office...