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...convinced that any budget can be pared a little without doing significant damage. Yet the record of the subcommittee hearings also indicates that they hesitated to appropriate money for projects such as the development of the M-1 rocket, which were not yet ready for production. They wanted to defer part of the NASA request until the next fiscal year. In doing so, they appeared a little less impressed with the crucial need for immediate action on the moon program than before...
...quality of the Harvard and B.U. buildings. With the Holyoke Center we now "only see the first half, so if we are horrified we must wait and see the other half." Speaking about the B.U. complex comprising the student center, library, and law school tower, he hoped people would "defer judgment until the whole mess is there...
...rare, partly because everybody knows everybody and everybody's business. Aramco's 4,267 U.S. employees and dependents live in company-built suburbias (rent: $300 a month for an air-conditioned three-bedroom bungalow) that also house Aramco Arab executives' families. The Americans are taught to defer to Moslem sensibilities. Though the government permits Aramco's Americans to have Christian religious services, it forbids display of the Cross. Imports of whisky, beer and wine are banned, but the men who can refine crude oil have little trouble in distilling bathtub gin and Scotch, known locally...
...kind of Disneyland East, has turned out to be a tunnel of horrors, lost several million dollars last year. His scheme for selling his hotels and leasing them back has backfired because of falling occupancy rates and higher costs. The softening real estate market has forced him to defer many of his plans to sell off Webb & Knapp buildings to raise cash. And, to top it all off, the New York Stock Exchange finally turned down the two-block site near Wall Street that Zeckendorf had proposed for its new home, decided on another instead. All told, Webb & Knapp last...
...Murville rose to demand that the discussions with Britain be ended. "What," he asked the delegates, "is the sense of going on with these negotiations after the press conference of General de Gaulle?" What, indeed? At week's end the delegates gratefully took a scheduled adjournment, agreed to defer a final decision until...