Word: constructively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio station still hopes to construct permanent facilities on top of the Masters' Garage at the corner of Holyoke and Mill Streets, but a WHRB spokesman said yesterday that the station will have to raise a lot more money before any further plans can be made. Last spring, WHRB began a $100,000 fund drive to finance a new studio...
...artisans started the long process of finishing the house in authentic Colonial style. Magnificent flooring (wood-pegged, not nailed) was put down in the first-floor reception room and dining room. (It is singularly comforting that in an age of Sert buildings there are still craftsmen able to construct such wonderful floors.) A fine old chandelier was hung over the graceful staircase. Authentic wallpaper of the period was found for the second-floor guest room. Fireplaces were scraped down to their original brownstone. Finally, the house was furnished with as many appropriate antiques as could be had. Carefully designed replicas...
...usual, South Africa's white regime took its latest humiliation in stolid stride. Following an agreement quietly signed last May with Portugal, its like-minded ally, South Africa is putting up $5,300,000 to help construct a jet airport on the Cape Verde island of Sal as an additional refueling stop. South African Minister of Transport Ben Schoeman assured everyone that the island-hopping detour is every bit as safe as the old routes. "We are flying and will keep flying," he vowed. The airline has already launched an advertising campaign extolling the scenic charms of such offbeat...
...Substantial progress has been made in the central highlands, where U.S. Special Forces teams have molded 150,000 montagnard tribesmen into a tough, well-trained jungle force that is effectively harassing Viet Cong supply lines from Communist North Viet Nam. The government has embarked on a crash program to construct some 12,000 "strategic hamlets." fortified villages where the peasants will be guarded against Viet Cong attacks by trained, well-armed militiamen. Already 9,750,000 people?65% of the population?have been settled in the 7,500 hamlets that have been built...
Instead, Lowell called for a University which would be both "broad and profound," which would construct a "new solidarity" within the College. The new President looked beyond the four undergraduate years. "If we can increase the intellectual ambition of college students," he said, "the whole face of our country will be changed. . . The object of a university is to counteract, rather than copy, the defects in the civilization...